At 512 pages, this book is dense. It’s divided into six main parts based on the geography of Lopez’s lifelong travels: western Oregon, the High Arctic, the Galapagos, Kenya, Australia and Antarctica…
Each of the chapters is jammed with stories and personal reflections. Lopez, perhaps more than any other nature writer alive, is introspective to his core. Every experience, every sight, every person he meets, has made an impression on him and, unlike most of us, he kept notes.
This book is his attempt to look back on it all and say something about the world we share.
Robb Merrill, Associated Press
