Arctic Dreams
by Barry Lopez · first published 1986
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This is an account of the author's exploration of the Western Arctic region, between Bering Strait and Davis Strait. It is an account both of the natural history of the Arctic, and equally of how the Arctic grips the human spirit and imagination.\ The chapters are rich in their descriptions of the Arctic –of the physical land itself, the native peoples that the author met, the Arctic animals and plants, both terrestrial and aquatic, the ice and the Arctic light that make the region so distinctly different from the temperate and tropical parts of Earth. But Lopez also gives us a sense of ho
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On the general subject of the Arctic, I would recommend the book Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez.
on “Has There Been a Nuclear Incident in the Arctic?” ↗…with indigenous people in Canada. They lived without time OK, adjusting activities with the length of the day, and their movement around their land by the seasons and the game available. Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams tells the story, among other things, of the Government school teachers in a far North village who tried to get the children into school between 9 and 4 on weekdays during the summer (24 hour daylight).…
on “Living Without Time” ↗I read in Arctic Dreams (Barry Lopez) that polar bears are hard to detect in the visual (white on white) and infrared (very good thermal insulation) spectrums, but that they are easily detectible in the ultraviolet spectrum…
on “Reindeer can see UV light” ↗