COLLECTED ESSAYS OF EVOLUTION, NATURE AND COSMOS

An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (19071977) was among the twentieth centurys greatest in heritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as S tephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Carl Sagan. After decades of fieldwork and discovery as a bone-hunter and professor, Eisele y turned late in life to the personal essay, and beginning with the surprise million-copy seller The Immense Journey (1957) he produ ced an aston...[Llegir més]