"At once reverie and urgent appeal, Horizon is beautiful and brutal--a story of the universal human condition, set in some of the most distinctive places on earth." -- The New York Times Book Review "Epic. The crowning achievement of a legendary scribe." -- Outside Magazine "Sublime, dreamlike. Lopez is a welcoming host as he brings you across the world." --NPR "Literary journalism, memoir and travelogue: so compelling it deserves its own genre." -- The Washington Post "Extraordinary. A capacious blend of popular science, travel writing and autobiography.

" -- The Wall Street Journal "A contemporary epic. Superb . challenging and symphonic; a beautiful book, 35 years in the writing, but still speaking to the present moment." -- The Guardian "An interrogative autobiography. In Horizon , Lopez is remapping the world, revisiting places of surprising starkness and beauty, bring[ing] enormous questions down to earth by rooting them in a series of landscapes." --Verlyn Klinkenborg, The New York Review of Books "Part autobiography, part cri de coeur . Lopez writes with fervid wonder and fascination about all he's seen and experienced." -- The Atlantic "A touchstone author whose nonfiction and fiction alike have inspired artists in multiple disciplines.

Lopez's visionary descriptions of landscapes are startling in their immediacy." -- The Seattle Times "Subtle, monumental, rich, spare: this opus by acclaimed writer Lopez contains and transcends contradictions." -- Nature "Lopez is a master of the big question. He writes with transporting precision." -- Christian Science Monitor "Epic. Lopez is a thoughtful and careful curator, sweeping the planet to understand not only its topography but also the cultural geography of humans and the relationship between the two. -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "An essential voice in American writing. Barry Lopez's stories of inquiry and discovery are gloriously riveting, bringing the reader into a research boat, an archaeological site, a night-tent conversation, water forty feet under the edge of an ice shelf.

At each place where he turns his eye and mind, something is learned of existence's richness and meaning. A master work. This book is a map to treasures everywhere buried." --Jane Hirshfield "I am astonished by this book, and delighted by its deep musicality. The scope and depth of Horizon are staggering--it is symphonic in scale and tone, and as contrapuntal as a Bach fugue. --John Luther Adams, Pulitzer-Prize winning composer.