Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez
    John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez
    John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez
    Audiobook1 hour

    John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez

    Written by Barry Lopez

    Narrated by John Luther Adams

    5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Longtime collaborators John Luther Adams and author Barry Lopez discuss their work, which explores environmental concerns and the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture. With a reading of Lopez's essay "The Invitation" by James Naughton.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSymphony Space
    Release dateAug 1, 2017
    ISBN9781509447947
    John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez
    Author

    Barry Lopez

    Barry Lopez (1945–2020) was the author of thirteen books of essays, short stories, and nonfiction. He was a recipient of the National Book Award, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous other literary and cultural honors and awards. His highly acclaimed books include Arctic Dreams, Winter Count, and Of Wolves and Men, for which he received the John Burroughs and Christopher medals. He lived in western Oregon.

    More audiobooks from Barry Lopez

    Related to John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez

    Related audiobooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Psychology Lost a Great Mind

      Nov 14, 2023

      On November 10, 2023, my dear friend John Tooby died—or as he would have put it, finally lost his struggle with entropy.  John was a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who together with his wife, L

      3 min read

    • Article

      Dedication

      Mar 4, 2021

      IN JUNE 1984, a young writer filed a review of Richard Nelson’s Make Prayers to the Raven in Orion Nature Quarterly. In just three hundred words, the review noted many things dear to both writers: authenticity, relationship, complexity, respect, spec

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Dark Side of the Houseplant Boom

      Apr 20, 2021

      American culture is becoming more and more preoccupied with nature. What if all the celebrations of the wild world are actually manifestations of grief?

      12 min read

    • Article

      Short Cuts

      Aug 7, 2022

      TWO HEADS (Bloomsbury) boasts cover blurbs from Steven Pinker and Brian Cox, but then it is a graphic novel about neuroscience. Two British neuroscience professors, husband and wife team Uta and Chris Frith, who have researched autism, dyslexia and s

      1 min read

    • Article

      Native Americans Shaped Prairie By Hunting Bison With Fire

      Jul 26, 2018

      Native American communities actively managed North American prairies for centuries before Christopher Columbus and his ilk arrived in the New World, according to a new study. Fire was an important indigenous tool for shaping North American ecosystems

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Time Is Now

      Feb 14, 2024

      Drawing on a wealth of botanical vocabulary, Canadian poet Sylvia Legris explores themes of nature in her new book, The Principle of Rapid Peering, forthcoming in April from New Directions. In the book, the title of which is derived from early-twenti

      2 min read

    • Article

      Where The Wild Books Are

      May 15, 2018

      Liam Heneghan aims to show how children’s literature can instill a lifelong love of nature.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Why We Need Court Jesters in Space

      Jun 27, 2019

      The great polar explorer Roald Amundsen credited expedition cook Adolf Henrik Lindstrøm as having “rendered greater and more valuable services to the Norwegian polar expedition than any other man.” He was citing not only Lindstrøm’s vaunted prowess a

      4 min read

    • Article

      Conservation Is An Ecosystem

      Nov 1, 2022

      IN JUNE 1934, AS GRITTY CLOUDS of dust boiled up from the Great Plains and darkened skies across the continent, University of Wisconsin professor Aldo Leopold addressed a crowd at the university’s new arboretum. Leopold was deeply disturbed by what w

      1 min read

    • Article

      E.O. Wilson Saw the World in a Wholly New Way

      Jan 5, 2022

      I first met Edward O. Wilson in 1971 when I was a student in an ecology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Wilson, a famous Harvard professor, was sitting in on the student project reports. After I reported my ex

      12 min read

    • Article

      Trees Have Their Own Songs

      Apr 4, 2017

      Trees Have Their Own Songs
      6 min read

    • Article

      On Nature Writing in a Filthy World

      Aug 15, 2018

      1. For the burgeoning fields of environmental humanities, it has long since become a commonplace notion that there isn’t really any such thing as “nature” or “wilderness”: both words used to connote real places—pristine and untouched places—but with

      11 min read

    • Article

      Beyond “Survival Of The Fittest”

      Oct 15, 2021

      If you learned about Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory in school, most likely it was presented as a straightforward explanation for how species have evolved to become what they are today. Individuals with different traits competed, and the stronge

      4 min read

    • Article

      How Early People Conquered The ‘Roof Of The World’

      Nov 30, 2018

      What does it mean to be human? Our species has set itself apart by colonizing the farthest reaches of the globe. A discovery of 30,000-year-old stone tools on the Tibetan Plateau underscores our adaptability.

      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for John Luther Adams and Barry Lopez

    5/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words