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The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991-03-01
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  • Publisher: Little Brown

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The Immense Journey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

The Immense Journey

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-07-13
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  • Publisher: Vintage

Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.

The Star Thrower
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The Star Thrower

A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley's entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. "Loren Eiseley's work changed my life" (Ray Bradbury). Introduction by W. H. Auden.

All the Strange Hours
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

All the Strange Hours

A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick museum at the University of Nebraska, where heøconducted his studies in anthropology. It was in pursuit of this interest, and in the expression of his natural curiosity and wonder, that Eiseley sprang to national fame with the publication of such works as The Immense Journey and The Firmament of Time. In All the Strange Hours, Eiseley turns his considerable powers of reflection and discovery on his own life to weave a compelling story, related with the modesty, grace, and keen eye for a telling anecdote that distinguish his work. His story begins with his childhood experiences as a sickly afterthought, weighed down by the loveless union of his parents. From there he traces the odyssey that led to his search for early postglacial man?and into inspiriting philosophical territory?culminating in his uneasy achievement of world renown. Eiseley crafts an absorbing self-portrait of a man who has thought deeply about his place in society as well as humanity?s place in the natural world.

Darwin's Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Darwin's Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1961
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Loren Eiseley
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Loren Eiseley

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The Firmament of Time
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

The Firmament of Time

Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skilful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory, factual evidence, personal anecdotes, haunting reflection, and poetic prose.

The Unexpected Universe
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

The Unexpected Universe

A naturalist explores the mystical symbolism of nature as he reflects upon man's evolution and scientific endeavor

The Invisible Pyramid
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 174

The Invisible Pyramid

A revered ecologist and conservationist examines the origins and possible futures of humankind within the context of the Space Age, masterfully “[communicating] the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis” (New York Times Book Review) To read Loren Eiseley is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. In this brilliant collection, he considers the cosmological significance and ultimate meanings of our evolutionary history, offering a series of profound, lyrical meditations on the origins and possible futures of humankind against the backdrop of the Apollo landings. As Western civilization attains new heights of sci...

Artifacts & Illuminations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Artifacts & Illuminations

Loren Eiseley (1907?77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Eiseley was a professor of anthropology and a prolific writer and poet who worked to bring an understanding of science to the general public, incorporating religion, philosophy, and science into his explorations of the human mind and the passage of time. As a writer who bridged the sciences and the humanities, Eiseley is a challenge for scholars locked into rigid disciplinary boundaries. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection of critical essays on the writing of Eiseley, situates his wor...