Horizon

A celebration and investigation of the impulse to explore, Horizon is itself an exploration—of both the human and inhuman worlds. In his intensity, his clarity, and his capacity for wonder, Barry Lopez is unmatched

Elizabeth Kolbert

Nobody journeys like Barry Lopez. He's humble, he's ethical, he's honest, he's curious, he's doubtful, he's properly sad and he's wild. He wakes us up to the worth and the mystery of the world. His great affection for humanity comes up from every patch of earth he visits. This is an epic book that goes from pole to pole, and yet manages to make a distinct 'everywhere' out of each little patch he visits. A glorious book, gloriously told

Colum McCann

The world is vast, and so are the heart and the curiosity of Barry Lopez. His voice is incomparable and necessary. No one else alive, to my knowledge, thinks so carefully about the moral dimensions of landscape

David Quammen

A winning memoir ... Exemplary writing about the world and a welcome gift to readers

Kirkus Review

No one has worked harder to make sense of our present civilization than Barry Lopez, and in these chronicles we get to share the travels that helped shape his extraordinary mind and heart. A great gift to us all

Bill McKibben

Riveting, seductive, and beautifully written. I don’t know of any other writer who so mesmerizingly, so seemingly effortlessly, weaves together art, science and poetry—I found myself underlining sentences on every page. Barry Lopez is one of my literary heroes

Andrea Wulf

Barry Lopez is a straight-up magnificent writer. To read Horizon is to be transported to wondrous landscapes far beyond the pale, and thereby obtain an astounding perspective on our increasingly uncertain future. Lopez expresses faith that our species can avert annihilation by investing ‘more deeply in the philosopher’s cardinal virtues’: courage, justice, reverence, and compassion—virtues this book possesses in abundance

Jon Krakauer

A masterpiece ... huge-hearted, wise and sorrowful book by the Philosopher-King of Gaia

Joy Williams

Barry Lopez brings the world alive like no other writer. His writing evokes diverse peoples and places with great humanity and humility. Horizon deserves to become a modern classic

Sir Ranulph Fiennes

A visionary masterpiece, a towering monument to a life dedicated to the whole of the world and everything in it

Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness

Magnificent; a contemporary epic

Robert Macfarlane, Guardian, Book of the Week

Subtle, monumental, rich

Nature

Reading Barry Lopez is a religious experience… most memorable and compelling

Observer

Breathtaking in its ambition… There could be no more essential guide than Lopez for navigating the time that remains

Sunday Times

The crowning achievement of Barry Lopez's illustrious career… we need adventurous, curious souls like Lopez to keep traveling and bringing back stories from beyond our particular horizon - in order to find our way forward as a species, together

Daily Mail

The greatest nature writer in the world ... He is also the greatest travel writer ... [an] astounding new memoir

Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Lopez… [is] renewing our sense of the entire planet…as home… He can move from the largest of canvases to the most local and seemingly familiar… [A] keen and uncompromising critic of the continuing colonialism that plagues the so-called developing world… At the same time, hope can be drawn from the fact that more of us are finally beginning to notice our predicament… a surer appreciation and reverence of the world that we inhabit

John Burnside, Literary Review

Horizon encompasses both the conquistadors’ lust for gold and the mining of Big Data… I don’t know whether Lopez is possessed of extrasensory perception, but he’s not short of wisdom. And he’s not merely keeping it; he’s sharing it.

Michael Kerr, Daily Telegraph

Superb essays that reveal the author's remarkable technical mastery of very diverse subjects, and these are rewarding. More-over, the examples of Captain Cook and Charles Darwin are on hand as historical proxies and inspirations for Lopez's own quest for global inclusivity. Finally there is, as distraction almost on every page, the sonorous cadence of his prose

Mark Cocker, Spectator

Horizon…[is] a magisterial and deeply personal survey of the world’s most remote regions… it is enthralling

Penelope Lively, Tablet, *Summer reads of 2019*

The best parts of Horizon are like a carefully constructed mosaic… Lopez packs his pages like the hold of a cargo plane, with everything strapped down, aisles between, and labelled… Horizon…has a definite design – like that of a garden

Benjamin Lytal, London Review of Books

Life-affirming

Michael Kerr, Daily Telegraph, *Books of the Year*

An epic account of a life lived in love with and scrutiny of our wounded natural world

Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue, *Books of the Year*

The horizon…serves as a metaphor for humanity’s future, one in which a definitive ending is not yet in sight. Horizon is not, therefore, without hope. There is still time for us to alter our behaviour

Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Times Literary Supplement

This is a book to be read slowly, savouring the descriptive language and side-tracking to research the human and natural history touched on by its long reach... If you have nature in your soul, you won't regret spending time reading this book when you're not - it will inspire, enthral and encourage your own reflections and observations. In this sense, it is both practical and escapist, and there is no greater praise for such a work of expansive non-fiction, a late enrichment to an already deep and wide life's work

David Callahan, Birdwatch

A magnificent achievement: symphonic in structure, epic in scope, its themes and ideas develop across 500 pages, all rendered in prose of spare and sinuous clarity

John Mitchinson, Byline Times