As voluptuous as…
I like the double surprise of this one. I wouldn't easily associate clouds with fruit, nor 'voluptuous', though cumulus clouds...
Water-polished shells
Lopez uses this to describe the bright whiteness of snow geese in flight.
‘Once airborne, they are dazzling on the...
Ice-choked rivers
A European would normally use ‘choked’ to describe a river full of algae or weeds or pollution. ‘Ice-choked’ gives a...
Red-tinged snow
No, not blood-stained, but a kind of lichen bringing the red of Snow White’s ruby mouth to the snow.
Source:...
Light-drowned tundra
Light in the Arctic seems to move between extremes of deprivation and dazzlement. Elsewhere Lopez talks about a ‘light-poor desert’,...
Sun-cured grasses
Somehow this evokes an image of a boundless prairie full of grazing bison. I learned from Lopez that the vast...
Time in two dimensions
A striking metaphor for time hovering or collapsing, in two versions of a bird, alive and flying, or keeling and...
Sun-bleached ribbons
Lopez’ book provides, among other things, a history of the exploration (and exploitation) of the Arctic, and what a ship...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving...
As curious, as dangerous as…
It's a long time, probably decades, since I had a nightmare, but I remember having quite a few in childhood,...
Wind-slabbed snow
Crunching home through snow after a winter walk, we found ourselves on such wind-slabs, albeit more modest in scale, Swiss...
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