Desert Notes

By Barry Holstun Lopez,

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Two volumes of fiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams: "Lopez feels a deep spiritual connection to the natural world." -San Francisco Chronicle

To National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez, the desert and the river are landscapes alive with poetry, mystery, seduction, and enchantment. In these two


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1 author picked Desert Notes as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book cannot be consumed quickly or immediately; it is a book like the desert. I am reading it for the third time, because what I do not yet understand of it I find I believe in anyway, maybe even know already.

I read it to go deeper and further, to clear, to still, to strengthen my mind with clues that it might be possible to reconcile and change the human condition through being intentional in nature and the stories we keep. It is infinitely more mysterious and beautiful than I can say. I am caught between a desire to


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