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Crossing Open Ground

Crossing Open Ground

Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez's essay collection roams from the Arctic to the Sonoran Desert, from stone horse intaglios to the relationship between landscape and imagination. Each essay is a small, precise act of attention. Lopez at his most accessible.
Culture & Place desert Essays American Southwest
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Publisher Vintage
Published 1989
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