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Loren Eiseley
In The Mind as Nature, Loren Eiseley explores the complex and fascinating relationship between the human mind and the natural world. Drawing on his deep knowledge of science and literature…
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This groundbreaking book by Loren Eiseley offers a fresh perspective on the life and work of Francis Bacon, the English philosopher and statesman. Eiseley argues that Bacon's vision of science…
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Highlights a study of the evolution with personal comments on the nature of modern man.
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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…
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…
Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley (1907-77) was a highly respected writer and poet best known for explaining complex scientific concepts in poems easily read and understood…
Loren Eiseley (1907-77) is one of the most important American nature writers of the twentieth century and an admired practitioner of creative nonfiction. Artifacts and Illuminations, the first full-length collection…
Qianqian Cheng
This book offers a coherent synthesis of Loren Eiseley’s works, showing how the naturalist and poet fosters readers’ ecological consciousness by arguing against artificial divisions between humans and the environment.
A modern Thoreau explores the mysteries of the universe in this deluxe collector’s boxed set.To read Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and…
Presents a collection of essays that explore inner and outer space, the vastness of the cosmos, and the limits of what can be known. Bringing poetic insight to scientific discipline…
An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the twentieth century’s greatest inheritors of the literarytradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin…
Examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. Loren Eiseley’s illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skillful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory…
In this work, the author turns his powers of reflection and discovery of his own life to relate his story. Beginning with his childhood experiences and traces the odyssey that…
Describes the author’s needy childhood in Nebraska. This title reveals his increasing sensitivity to the odd and ordinary in nature and focuses on a career that turns him inward as…
Professional philosophers and other scholars discuss issues related to death, life extension, and anti-death in this anthology.
David Lindsay
After a strange interstellar journey, Maskull, a man from Earth, awakens alone in a desert on the planet Tormance, seared by the suns of the binary star Arcturus. As he…
Jack London
An edition featuring a map of the world of Big-Tooth, an epilogue by Loren Eiseley, illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull, contemporary reviews, and a listing of peoples and characters.
The last Loren Eisely book includes unpublished writing and is a portrait of the man himself. Spanning the greater part of Eiseley’s life, the entries include short stories, poems and…
