Arctic Dreams

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape is a 1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction,^[1] the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,^[2] and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.^[3]

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Author	Barry Lopez
Language	English
Set in	Alaskan and Canadian Arctic
Publisher	Charles Scribner's Sons
Publication date	1986
Awards	National Book Award for Nonfiction (1986)
ISBN	9780684185781

Arctic Dreams (1986) describes five years in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, where Lopez worked as a biologist.^[4][5] Robert Macfarlane, reviewing the book in The Guardian, describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness".^[5] In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani argued that Arctic Dreams "is a book about the Arctic North in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales".^[6]