Horizon Audiobook By Barry Lopez cover art

Horizon

Preview
Try for $0.00
Prime logo Prime members: New to Audible?
Get 2 free audiobooks during trial.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Horizon

By: Barry Lopez
Narrated by: James Naughton
Try for $0.00

$14.95/month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $27.00

Buy for $27.00

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

About this listen

One of the Best Books of the Year:
The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian

From pole to pole and across decades of lived experience, National Book Award-winning author Barry Lopez delivers his most far-ranging, yet personal, work to date. Horizon moves indelibly, immersively, through the author’s travels to six regions of the world: from Western Oregon to the High Arctic; from the Galápagos to the Kenyan desert; from Botany Bay in Australia to finally, unforgettably, the ice shelves of Antarctica.

Along the way, Lopez probes the long history of humanity’s thirst for exploration, including the prehistoric peoples who trekked across Skraeling Island in Northern Canada, the colonialists who plundered Central Africa, an enlightenment-era Englishman who sailed the Pacific, a Native American emissary who found his way into isolationist Japan, and today’s ecotourists in the tropics. And always, throughout his journeys to some of the hottest, coldest, and most desolate places on the globe, Lopez searches for meaning and purpose in a broken world.

©2019 Barry Lopez (P)2019 Random House Audio
Ecosystems & Habitats Natural History Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Travel Writing & Commentary Polar Region
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup

Critic reviews

"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. Lopez’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?'" (The New York Times Book Review)

"Sublime, dreamlike. One of America’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 Lopez’s belief that the only way forward is compassionately, and together." (NPR)

"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)

Poetic Writing • Profound Insights • Soothing Voice • Balanced Narrative • Elegant Language • Thought-provoking Content
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
Bravo. The work itself is beautifully meandering thought-provoking mix of history, science and spirituality. Poetic but not too dense.

The narrator truly nails it as well. Just enough emphasis without affecting the original. Great voice!

Amazing bedtime listening.

Beautiful narration of poetic, rich and deeply thought-provoking pros

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

While the storyline is confusing Barry’s reflection, on his time on planet earth is compelling and worth reading.

Barry Lopez reflects on his life

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

an awesome education. compelling from beginning to end. will read again to learn more than I could get in first pass

Awesome Education. will read again

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

My first Barry Lopez book but it won’t be my last. Arctic Dreams is next on my list. The reader had the perfect pitch to convey the thoughts of the author.

An excellent storyteller

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Scholarly recounting of travels to extremely remote places expressed how humans and animals dealt with an unfriendly climate. His observations and opinions painted a vivid picture.

Commentary on human impact on the world without bias.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Insightful, wonderful, thoughtful, incredible piece of writing! Highly recommend this book. it's a long listen, 23 hours, and there is a lot to absorb, but well worth it.

Fabulous!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Barry Lopez is not just an astoundingly learned polymath. He is a wise elder, whose meditations on places and peoples and history need to be absorbed and heeded.

Wise and important

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Each chapter is a different lesson in the history of man. I enjoyed the adventure of it as well as the insights. The book is far better than this review. Barry Lopez is now a top 3 author for me. Give it a chance.

seamless stitching of story, history, philosophy

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

A miraculously balanced string of descriptions of places no ordinary person travels to, with stories and history of what happened there and with observations, thoughts and feelings of the author while there. Rich and captivating.

Travels, tales and thoughts

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This was my first book by Barry Lopez and it certainly will not be my last one.
Such amazing stories and what a special person he is.
I don’t want to go into details, you NEED to get this book and experience his stories.
The narrator, mr. James Naughton did an excellent job,
My thanks to all involved in making this book available to us, JK.

AWESOME

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews