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LINDSAY, DAVID; EISELEY, LOREN (INTRODUCTION). A Voyage To Arcturus.
Ballantine Books, New York: 1973. 0345232089 / 9780345232083 Third Printing. s Softcover. Reading copy.
Wandering alone on Tormance, the one inhabited planet of the star Arcturus, the hero of this remarkable story cries, "I must make up my mind that this is a strange journey, and that the strangest things will happen in it." And the strangest things do indeed happen in a book that is at once an engrossing fantasy and a profound metaphysical fable. "One of the most brilliant flights of pure fancy ever recorded." - London Times
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EISELEY, LOREN; BOARDMAN, KATHLEEN A. (INTRODUCTION). All The Strange Hours: The Excavation Of A Life.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 2000. s Softcover. Brand new book.
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 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 turned 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 manÑand into inspiriting philosophical territoryÑculminating 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. Loren Eiseley's many works include The Night Country, The Invisible Pyramid, and The Firmament of Time, all available in Bison Books editions. Introducer Kathleen A. Boardman is director of the Core Writing Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. "A fascinating self-portrait by an extraordinary man."ÑLibrary Journal "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . . We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . . His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."ÑBloomsbury Review
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EISELEY, LOREN; HALLER, EMANUEL (ILLUSTRATIONS). All The Strange Hours: The Excavation Of A Life.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1975. 0684144271 / 9780684144276 First Edition (Unstated). h Hardcover with dustjacket. Very good condition.
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 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 turned 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 manÑand into inspiriting philosophical territoryÑculminating 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. Loren Eiseley's many works include The Night Country, The Invisible Pyramid, and The Firmament of Time, all available in Bison Books editions. Introducer Kathleen A. Boardman is director of the Core Writing Program at the University of Nevada, Reno. "A fascinating self-portrait by an extraordinary man."ÑLibrary Journal "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . . We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . . His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."ÑBloomsbury Review
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EISELEY, LOREN. Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X: New Light On The Evolutionists.
E. P. Dutton and Co., New York: 1979. 052508875X / 9780525088752 First Edition. h Hardcover with dustjacket. Good condition.
In this major contribution to the literature of Darwinism, Eiseley presents indisputable evidence that the basis tenets of the theory of natural selection were set forth by the now-forgotten naturalist Edward Blyth, years before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. Includes an Index.
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EISELEY, LOREN. Darwin's Century: Evolution And The Men That Discovered It.
Doubleday & Company, Garden City: 1961. 0385081413 / 9780385081412 Second Printing. s Softcover. Good condition.
This is a definitive account, by one of Americas most distinguished anthropologists, of how the concept of evolution came about, what its components were, and why it affected so deeply mans view of himself. At the heart of the account if the figure of Charles Darwin, his career, his creative achievements, his impact on the Victorian world. Index included.
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PORTER. ELIOT (PHOTOGRAPHS); EISELEY, LOREN & MILTON, JOHN P. (INTRODUCTIONS); BROWER, KENNETH (FOREWORD). Galapagos: The Flow Of Wildness - Two Volumes - I. Discovery, 2. Prospect.
Sierra Club, San Francisco. h Hardcovers with dustjackets in a slipcase. Good condition but the dustjackets are slightly frayed..
This is a book in praise of islands. Its two volumes are an investigation of the virtues of islands as points of reference, both scientific and poetic. They are concerned with islands as laboratories, refuges, genetic reservoirs, and places for future discovery. The book arose from concern for islands and the fragile life forms they have evolved, the gentle insular wildness that is vanishing so rapidly around the world. Its concern is both for oceanic islands like the Galapagos, and for islands isolated in other ways - for islands of life, like the very small island of whooping cranes, a last island of common genes and nesting calls, or like the limited fraternity of the Indian rhinoceros, or that of the freshwater seals of Lake Baikal.
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EISELEY, LOREN; HOLTHAUS, GARY (INTRODUCTION). The Firmament Of Time.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1999. s Softcover. Brand new book.
Loren Eiseley examines what we as a species have become in the late twentieth century. His illuminating and accessible discussion is a characteristically skillful and compelling synthesis of hard scientific theory, factual evidence, personal anecdotes, haunting reflection, and poetic prose. Loren Eiseley (1907-1977), naturalist, essayist, philosopher, and poet, won the John Burroughs Medal for best publication in the field of nature writing in 1961 for The Firmament of Time. Introducer Gary Holthaus, a freelance poet and writer, is the author of Wide Skies: Finding a Home in the West. "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 almost forgotten excitements of reflection."ÑNew Yorker "[This book] has a warm feeling for all natural phenomena; it has a rapport with man and his world and his problems; it has appraisal, and even blame and condemnation; but, above all, it has hope and belief. And it has the beauty of prose that characterizes Eiseley's philosophical moods."ÑChicago Sunday Tribune "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . . We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . . His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."ÑBloomsbury Review
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EISELEY, LOREN. The Immense Journey.
Time Incorporated, New York: 1962. s Softcover. Good condition.
In an unusual blend of scientific knowledge and imaginative vision-and from the standpoint of an anthropologist and naturalist- Loren Eiseley tells the story of man. "Dr. Eiseley has written a work of true science which must surely take its place also as great literature." -London Times Literary Supplement.
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EISELEY, LOREN, GRUCHOW, PAUL (INTRODUCTION). The Invisible Pyramid.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1998. s Softcover. Brand new book.
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 collection of essays, first published shortly after Americans landed on the moon, explores inner and outer space, the vastness of the cosmos, and the limits of what can be known. Bringing poetic insight to scientific discipline, Eiseley makes connections between civilizations past and present, multiple universes, humankind, and nature. Loren Eiseley's many works include The Night Country (Bison Books 1997). Introducing The Invisible Pyramid is Paul Gruchow, a professor of English at Concordia College and the author of Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild. "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . .We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . . His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."ÑThe Bloomsbury Review "A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man [Eiseley] and twists from him some of the best prose we have. . . . The beauty of The Invisible Pyramid is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note. . . . Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision."ÑNew York Times Book Review
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EISELEY, LOREN. The Night Country.
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London: 1997. s Softcover. Brand new book.
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 increasing sensitivity to the odd and ordinary in nature, and focuses on a career that turns him inward as he reaches outward for answers in old bones. Gale E. Christianson, author of Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley, is a professor of history at Indiana State University, Terre Haute. "Eiseley has met strange creatures in the night country, and he tells marvelous stories about them . . . For Eiseley, storytelling is never pure entertainment. The autobiographical tales keep illustrating the theses that wind through all his writingÑthe fallibility of science, the mystery of evolution, the surprise of life."ÑTime "The autobiographical details that [Eiseley] uses in most of the essays have power over the reader's imagination precisely because they have been filtered through a heightened sensibility. Most of us see; Eiseley challenges us to be aware."ÑAmerica "A sort of Odyssey by a man in dialogue with nature and evolution; Eiseley remains one of our foremost humanistsÑand prose stylists."ÑChristian Century "[Eiseley] is the raconteur par excellence. His tales . . . all make fascinating reading."ÑLibrary Journal "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available. . . .We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. . . .His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."ÑThe Bloomsbury Review
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EISELEY, LOREN. The Unexpected Universe.
Harvest/HBJ, New York: 1969. 0156928507 / 9780156928502 s Softcover. Good condition.
Writes about a naturalist's response to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of the universe, ranging from seeds, to the ice age, and the goddess Circe.
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EISELEY, LOREN. The Unexpected Universe.
Harvest/HBJ, New York: 1969. 0156928507 / 9780156928502 s Softcover. Good condition.
Writes about a naturalist's response to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of the universe, ranging from seeds, to the ice age, and the goddess Circe.
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