Arctic dreams imagination and desire in northern landscape (Chinese Edition)

I read many books of people that were very uneasy with hunting. Like Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams. Had a huge impact on me.

Yeah, like Arctic Dream. It's like Coming into the Country by John McPhee, like greatest, greatest book for outdoorsman.

In Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams, he's out hunting, he's out hunting with Eskimo hunters and they're off Alaska and they're hunting walrus. And he says for a while, he goes, they were technically in Russia.

The book that most changed my view on wildlife and kind of ecology and environmentalism is a book by a guy that's very uneasy, almost antagonistic toward hunting named Barry Lopez.

And the reason I think it's helpful, like if you like to hunt, the reason it's a helpful book to read is Lopez in his talk about Eskimo hunters and his talk about wildlife in the Arctic and what's happening in the Arctic, he makes such a compelling case about he doesn't condemn it and he doesn't take cheap shots but he lays out in a really clear way like why he's uneasy with hunting.

What first got me interested in the idea that there was something to think about here is I was reading year many years ago in Barry Lopez's Arctic Dreams and in the epilogue to the book he's hunting walrus with Alaskan natives though he's actually in Russian waters and they're slaughtering walrus on the ice and the smell of blood and gunpowder are still lingering in the air and Lopez doesn't get into it but he alludes to the reconciliation or the need to reconcile Jacob and Esau or this reconciliation that occurs. I remember thinking like what's that?

I love that. But was it?

Yeah, so in there Lopez talks about how anthropologists know the the hunting of Buffalo by cliff jumps and then also caribou by River crossings and then but at that time that was an ethical practice, you know, and so you know, which is interesting because today we would cringe if somebody did something like that.

Some of the bear doesn't make any mistakes.