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Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley
Av Loren Eiseley, Kenneth Heuer
Häftad, 2002
205 kr
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This indispensable collection is filled with marvelous autobiographical glimpses of Loren Eiseley at different points in his life-as a young, inquisitive man during the Depression, as an astute archaeologist, as a blossoming writer, and lastly, as a world-renowned observer and essayist. Also …
Immense Journey
An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
E-bok, 2011
153 kr
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Anthropologist and naturalist Loren Eiseley blends scientific knowledge and imaginative vision in this story of man.
Unexpected Universe, The
Häftad, 1972
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177 kr
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Drawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena throughout the universe.Scrupulous scholarship and magical prose are brought to bear on such diverse topics as seeds, the hieroglyphs on shells, lost tombs, …
Invisible Pyramid
Häftad, 1998
252 kr
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In 1910 young Loren Eiseley watched the passage of Halley’s Comet with his father. The boy who became a famous naturalist was never again to see the spectacle except in his imagination. That childhood event contributed to the profound sense of time and space that marks The Invisible Pyramid. This …
Immense Journey
An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
Häftad, 1959
196 kr
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Night Country
Häftad, 1997
292 kr
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Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom and beauty from the famed anthropologist. It describes his needy childhood in Nebraska, reveals his …
Firmament of Time
Häftad, 1999
205 kr
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"Dr. Eiseley describes with zest and admiration the giant steps that have led man, in a scant three hundred years, to grasp the nature of his extraordinary past and to substitute a natural world for a world of divine creation and intervention. . . . An irresistible inducement to partake of the …
All the Strange Hours
The Excavation of a Life
Häftad, 2000
232 kr
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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 he conducted his studies in anthropology. It was in …
Firmament of Time
A Library of America eBook Classic
Av Loren Eiseley, William Cronon
E-bok, 2016
238 kr
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In The Firmament of Time ––nominated for a National Book Award––Loren Eiseley offers a series of brilliant, provocative excursions through the history of science. A paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, he reflects on the many ways in which the quest for knowledge has been shaped by the …
Unexpected Universe
A Library of America eBook Classic
Av Loren Eiseley, William Cronon
E-bok, 2016
146 kr
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At the height of a distinguished career as a paleontologist, Loren Eiseley turned from fieldwork and scientific publication to the personal essay. Here, in The Unexpected Universe , he displays his far-reaching knowledge and searching curiosity about the natural world, and the qualities that led …
Invisible Pyramid
A Library of America eBook Classic
Av Loren Eiseley, William Cronon
E-bok, 2016
233 kr
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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 …
Night Country
A Library of America eBook Classic
Av Loren Eiseley, William Cronon
E-bok, 2016
146 kr
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Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley’s essays in The Night Country explore those moments, often dark and unexpected, when chance encounters disturb our ordinary understandings of the universe. The naturalist here …
