This event is presented in partnership with UBC’s School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Vancouver Writers Fest, The Narwhal, Ocean Wise and BC Parks Foundation.
About Horizon:
“Exemplary writing about the world and a welcome gift to readers.” —Kirkus Reviews
From the National Book Award-winning author of the now-classic Arctic Dreams, a vivid, poetic, capacious work that recollects the travels around the world and the encounters—human, animal, and natural—that have shaped an extraordinary life.
Taking us nearly from pole to pole—from modern megacities to some of the most remote regions on the earth—and across decades of lived experience, Barry Lopez, hailed by the Los Angeles Times Book Review as “one of our finest writers,” gives us his most far-ranging yet personal work to date, in a book that moves indelibly, immersively, through his travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.
Throughout his journeys—to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe—and via friendships he forges along the way with scientists, archaeologists, artists and local residents, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.
Horizon is a revelatory, epic work that voices concern and frustration along with humanity and hope—a book that makes you see the world differently, and that is the crowning achievement by one of America’s great thinkers and most humane voices.
Barry Lopez is the author of numerous works of nonfiction and fiction, among them Arctic Dreams, for which he received the National Book Award; Of Wolves and Men, a National Book Award finalist; two collections of essays; several story collections; and Crown and Weasel, a novella-length fable. He contributes regularly to both American and international journals and magazines and has travelled to more than 70 countries to conduct research. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan and National Science foundations and has been honoured by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian and environmental work. He lives in Oregon.
Ian Gill is a writer, filmmaker and social entrepreneur who founded and led Ecotrust Canada and served as CEO of Ecotrust Australia. He has been a reporter and editor for the Vancouver Sun and CBC. He is also now a regular columnist for The Tyee. His groundbreaking work of nonfiction, No News is Bad News, explores what’s happening to our newsrooms—and where the future of journalism, and democracy, may lie.
