Annotation Selection of the author's favorite essays and poems. Introduction by W.H. Auden. From the Publisher Long admired for his compassionate, probing meditations on the natural world, Loren Eiseley completed this volume of his favorite writings shortly before his death in 1977. It...  more

Annotation Selection of the author's favorite essays and poems. Introduction by W.H. Auden. From the Publisher Long admired for his compassionate, probing meditations on the natural world, Loren Eiseley completed this volume of his favorite writings shortly before his death in 1977. It includes many selections never before published in book form and spans Eiseley's entire writing career - from his early poems through The Immense Journey and The Unexpected Universe to his most recent essays - providing a superb sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. The Judgment of the Birds -- The Long Loneliness -- Man the Firemaker -- The Innocent Fox -- How Flowers Changed the World -- The Ghostly Guardian -- The Bird and the Machine -- The Fire Apes -- Easter: The Isle of Faces -- The Dance of the Frogs -- The Hidden Teacher -- The Fifth Planet -- The Last Neanderthal -- The Spider -- Tasting the Mountain Spring -- Things Will Go -- Leaving September -- Nocturne in Silver -- Winter Sign -- October Has the Heart -- Dusk Interval -- Let the Red Fox Run -- The Fishers -- The Star Thrower -- Science and the Sense of the Holy -- The Winter of Man -- Man Against the Universe -- Thoreau's Vision of the Natural World -- Walden: Thoreau's Unfinished Business -- The Lethal Factor -- The Illusion of the Two Cultures -- How Natural is "Natural"? -- The Inner Galaxy -- Honors and Awards -- Acknowledgments