Book review: In 'Horizon,' Barry Lopez recounts his travels while making graceful leaps in time and geography to follow his intellectual fancies
City folks who toil year round at stressful office jobs dream of getting away from it all on a wilderness holiday—camping in a national park or fishing in a high mountain stream.
For Barry Lopez, getting away from it all means collecting meteorites in the Transantarctic Mountains, 220 miles from the South Pole, at an elevation of 7,460 feet. There, he gazes at an elemental landscape of ice and sky, devoid of life, a place where no one has ever set foot and human history is a remote, insignificant event. It is as close to eternity as one can approach on Earth and thus, for Mr. Lopez, ideally conducive to contemplating...
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