Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his masterpiece.

Lopez offers a thorough examination of this obscure world-its terrain, its wildlife, its history of Eskimo natives and intrepid explorers who have arrived on their icy shores. But what turns this marvelous work of natural history into a breathtaking study of profound originality is his unique meditation on how the landscape can shape our imagination, desires, and dreams. Its prose as hauntingly pure as the land it describes, Arctic Dreams is nothing less than an indelible classic of modern literature.

巴里·洛佩兹 Barry Lopez (1945- )，散文家、短篇小说家，共著有6部散文作品和10部虚构作品，美国最具代表性的自然文学作家之一，是“当代从伦理角度重估人类生态行为的主要代言人”。迄今获奖无数：美国国家图书奖、美国图书评论协会提名奖、美国文学与 艺术学院颁发的文学奖、美国自然文学的最高奖项——约翰·巴勒斯奖章、古根海姆奖、美国国家科学基金会奖、手推车奖等。

译者 张建国 (1967-)，河南渑池人，郑州大学英美文学研究中心研究员，郑州大学外语学院副教授，致力用生态批评、后现代主义诗学、文学文体学等视角研究英美自然散文和美国当代科学散文。