MixedThe New York Times Book ReviewBlackburn has a talent for envisioning bygone worlds ... Time Song jumps between vast epochs of time as Blackburn ponders the history of the English coast and its counterpart in the Netherlands ... Unfortunately, many of the glimpses the reader gets are in the form of strange, somewhat awkward prose poems Blackburn calls \'time songs.\' There are 18 of them, and they contain some of the book’s most interesting facts and ideas ... But the format is distracting. The book also bogs down in descriptions of the eccentric collectors Blackburn meets, whose homes and garages overflow with the bones of extinct rhinos and the teeth of bygone shrews. These scenes drag on, with no real forward momentum.
Barry Lopez
PositiveThe New York Times Book Review\"Horizon is beautiful and brutal, uplifting and bleak, a story of the universal human condition set in some of the most distinctive places on earth ... Strangely, though, these relentless reminders of egregious acts don’t diminish the appeal of seeing the world through Lopez’s eyes. His reverence for exploring every corner of the world, even the sites of its most shameful histories, is infectious.\
