The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook ClassicLibrary of America, 15 нояб. 2016 г. - Всего страниц: 186 “No one has ever managed to make the pursuit of knowledge feel more soulful or more immediate than Loren Eiseley . . . ” —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast 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 many to hail him as a “modern Thoreau.” Fascinating accounts of the journeys of Odysseus, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin frame Eiseley’s more modest wanderings as a suburban naturalist, attentive to the lives of small creatures. Sometimes he travels no further than the local dump. And yet, like Homer’s hero or these great explorers, he continually finds a universe “not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.” |
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The Star Thrower | |
The Angry Winter | |
The Golden Alphabet | |
The Invisible Island | |
The Inner Galaxy | |
The Innocent | |
The Last Neanderthal | |
Bibliography | |
Note on the Text | |
Index | |
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