Arctic Dreams

{{Short description|1986 nonfiction book by Barry Lopez}}

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| author = Barry Lopez

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| language = English

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| set_in = Alaskan and Canadian Arctic

| publisher = Charles Scribner's Sons

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| pub_date = 1986

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| awards = National Book Award for Nonfiction (1986)

| isbn = 9780684185781

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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,{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalbook.org/awards-prizes/national-book-awards-1986/?cat=nonfiction |title=National Book Awards – 1986 |publisher=National Book Foundation |accessdate=March 18, 2018}} the Christopher Medal, a Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award,{{cite web | url = http://www.pnba.org/uploads/2/6/5/9/26598517/1987bookawards.pdf | title = 1987 Book Awards | website = Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association | url-status = live | access-date = 2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914164713/http://www.pnba.org/uploads/2/6/5/9/26598517/1987bookawards.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-14 }} and an Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction. It was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist.{{Cite web |url=http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards |title=National Book Critics Circle Award past winners and finalists | website = National Book Critics Circle |access-date=March 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018063346/http://bookcritics.org/awards/past_awards/ |archive-date=October 18, 2015 |url-status=dead }}

Arctic Dreams (1986) describes five years in the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic, where Lopez worked as a biologist.{{Cite news|last=McFadden|first=Robert D.|date=December 27, 2020|title=Barry Lopez, Lyrical Writer Who Was Likened to Thoreau, Dies at 75|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/barry-lopez-dead.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/obituaries/barry-lopez-dead.html|archive-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news|last=Macfarlane|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Macfarlane (writer)|date=April 2, 2005|title=Robert Macfarlane on Barry Lopez|language=en|work=The Guardian|url=http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview35|url-status=live|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172219/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/02/featuresreviews.guardianreview35|archive-date=December 27, 2020}} Robert Macfarlane, reviewing the book in The Guardian, describes him as "the most important living writer about wilderness". 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".{{Cite news|last=Kakutani|first=Michiko|author-link=Michiko Kakutani|date=February 12, 1986|title=Books of the Times|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/books/books-of-the-times-339886.html|url-status=live|access-date=December 27, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227172135/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/12/books/books-of-the-times-339886.html|archive-date=December 27, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}