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Award-winning author Barry Lopez presents free reading tonight at UH

Nature speaks to those who know how to listen. Lucky for the rest of us that there's a Barry Lopez to help with the translation.

Lopez, one of the country's most celebrated and influential nature writers, does some speaking of his own with a free reading and talk at 7 tonight at the University of Hawai'i's Orvis Auditorium.

Lopez won a National Book Award for "Arctic Dreams" and is the author of 14 other award- winning nonfiction and fiction books, including "About This Life" and "Of Wolves and Men."

The event is presented by Manoa: A Pacific Journal.

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