Bron: bol.com/nl

"IF you lowered a microphone into Lancaster Sound off Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic on a summer day, you might hear all at once the tremolo moans of bearded seals, the baritone boom of a walrus, the high-pitched bark and yelp of ringed seals, the electric crackling of shrimp, the birdlike trills and clicks and other harmonics of white beluga whales and horned narwhals, and the elephantine trumpeting of huge bowhead whales. And it is this synchronous wealth of life - of all life - that Barry Lopez is celebrating in his jubilant new book. Among contemporary nature writers Mr. Lopez is especially a rhapsodist, and what he has done in this passionate paean to the Arctic and its cycles of light and darkness, its species of ice, its creatures and waters, is to present a whole series of raptures and riffs on the subject of musk oxen, ivory gulls, white foxes, polar bears, icebergs and sea cur-rents. Speaking of the effect of the Arctic upon an explorer, he describes how ''the land becomes large, alive like an animal; it humbles him. . . . It is not that the land is simply beautiful but that it is powerful. . . . Darkness and light are bound together within it, and the feeling that this is the floor of creation.''  "

Bron en volledige recensie: nytimes

"Lopez handles his materials with the meticulous care of a scientist, with the visual sensitivity of a painter, with the cadences and insights of a poet, and with the ingenuous awe of a man to whom the Arctic has revealed wonders that border on the religious. His first-person narrative is deceptively casual, disarmingly nonchalant; its flow and its careful use of language remind one of the best of E. B. White’s writing."

Bron en volledige recensie: enotes

Nederlandstalige versie beschikbaar in: gent.bibliotheek