{"product_id":"field-notes-the-grace-note-of-the-canyon-wren-9781400075126","title":"Field Notes: The Grace Note of the Canyon Wren","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this collection of twelve stories, Barry Lopez--the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams \u003c\/i\u003eand one of our most admired writers--evokes the longing we feel for beauty in our relationships with one another, with the past, and with nature. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e An anthropologist traveling with an aboriginal people finds that, because of his aggressive desire to understand them, they remain always disturbingly unknowable. A successful financial consultant, failing to discover his roots in Africa, jogs from Connecticut to the Pacific Ocean in order to forge an indigenous connection to the American landscape. A paleontologist is haunted by visions of wildlife in a vacant lot in Manhattan. In simple, crystalline prose, Lopez evokes a sense of the magic and marvelous strangeness of the world, and a deep compassion for the human predicament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarry Lopez is the author of three collections of essays, including \u003ci\u003eHorizon;\u003c\/i\u003e several story collections; \u003ci\u003eArctic Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, for which he received the National Book Award; \u003ci\u003eOf Wolves and Men\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist; and \u003ci\u003eCrow and Weasel\u003c\/i\u003e, a novella-length fable. He contributed regularly to both American and foreign journals and traveled to more than seventy countries to conduct research. He was the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and National Science Foundations and was honored by a number of institutions for his literary, humanitarian, and environmental work. He died in 2020. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ewww.barrylopez.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50464863748370,"sku":"9781400075126","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_46b154d4-c387-4ca8-9190-febd8c9334be.jpg?v=1730108767","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/field-notes-the-grace-note-of-the-canyon-wren-9781400075126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}