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“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. Lopez [searches] both memory and
meticulously recorded field notes, mining accumulated wisdom, seeking glimmers of hope. One of the
strongest messages in Horizon is that without learning to embrace diversity, without listening to the tales
told by cultures other than our own, we risk obliteration. Lopezâ€s reverence for exploring every corner of
the world is infectious, [and] his knack for making friends in the most unlikely places resonates long after
you turn the last page. ‘Are we not bound,†he asks, ‘to learn how to speak with each other?â€â€•
—Hillary Rosner, The New York Times Book Review“Sublime, dreamlike. One of Americaâ€s
foremost naturalist writers, Lopez is a welcoming host as he brings you across the world . . . Above all else,
he wants us to consider. To find context and connections. To think about where to go from here. To take our
time. Horizon is a contemplation of Lopezâ€s belief that the only way forward is compassionately, and
together.― —Genevieve Valentine, NPR“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. Horizon is an interrogative autobiography . . . In beautiful prose, with characteristic
modesty, he has taught the reader to trust him, as a privileged witness of his own being and all the different
worlds he has urged it to inhabit. Thereâ€s an extraordinary delicacy in the way he relates to traditional,
indigenous wisdom and the people who sustain it. ‘Diversity is not a mere characteristic of life,â€
Lopez writes. Itâ€s ‘a condition necessary for life.†He means more than biological diversity:
diversity of languages and cultures, of behaviors and wisdoms that have vanished. How can we keep the
future from crushing the wisdom of the past altogether? Throughout his career Lopez has insisted on the
possibilities of our better nature while examining the evidence of our worse. He never made a habit of rising
up in judgment or condemnation; instead he wonders, what would it mean to understand our place in the
universe? What sort of courage would it take to admit that we donâ€t? He wants to find out whether the
answers to these questions might make a difference in where weâ€re headed.― —Verlyn Klinkenborg,
The New York Review of Books“Beautifully composed [with] steady intellectual rigor—a capacious
blend of popular science, travel writing and autobiography. There is no discernable limit to Lopez's
curiosity: he writes with equal enthusiasm about human origins, the search for the edge of the expanding
universe, classical music, arctic archaeology, Impressionist painting and Aboriginal rock art. He is at his
best writing about natural history, where his scrupulous research and talent for lucid exposition make the
business of scientific fieldwork come alive. The book is rendered with gorgeous prose, and spiked with
humor . . . Extraordinary.―—The Wall Street Journal“Lopez writes with transporting precision . . . To
travel is to encounter both places and people, and he traverses the psycho-geography as an artful
participant/observer. He also confronts the urgent need to address our depredations as a species; he tries to

cultivate empathy, compassion, listening carefully. He dispenses history judiciously. Lopez is a master of the
big question: Why, for the most part, was it only the white and well-connected who had a seat at the table?
The answer is complicated . . . Lopez handles [it] with aplomb.― —The Christian Science Monitor
“A touchstone author whose nonfiction and fiction alike have inspired artists in multiple disciplines . . .
Lopezâ€s visionary descriptions of landscapes are startling in their immediacy. Burgeoning with
natureâ€s diversity, animals, cultural mindsets, beauty and devastation, Lopez underscores in these
writings the essential impact of ‘place†in our lives.― —The Seattle Times  “Part
autobiography, part cri de coeur . . . Lopez writes with fervid wonder and fascination about all heâ€s seen
and experienced . . . Most of all, [he] is gripped by an urgency to tell ‘a coherent and meaningful
story†about the threat of humanityâ€s extinction as a result of climate change and societal declension,
and the ways he believes it can be prevented.― —The Atlantic“Literary journalism, memoir and
travelogue: so compelling it deserves its own genre.― —The Washington Post “Epic, thoughtful . .
. Lopez possesses an exquisite sensitivity. His legacy to the literary world is the ability to bring this
awareness and empathy to his interpretations of the diverse cultures he encounters and the suffering he sees.
Never judgmental or heavy-handed, Horizon is