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The Unexpected Universe

By Loren Eiseley

Book information

Publisher
Library of America
Year
2016
ISBN
9781598535457, 1598535455
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
420 kB (430162 bytes)
Pages
186\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

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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