The star thrower /
Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977.
The star thrower / Loren Eiseley ; introd. by W. H. Auden. - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. - New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, c1978. - 319 p. ; 20 cm. - A Harvest/HBJ book .
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.
Publisher description : A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley's entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. "Loren Eiseley's work changed my life" (Ray Bradbury). Introduction by W. H. Auden.
0156849097 (pbk.)
79010406
Poetry.
PS3555.I78 / S75 1979
818/.5/409
The star thrower / Loren Eiseley ; introd. by W. H. Auden. - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed. - New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1979, c1978. - 319 p. ; 20 cm. - A Harvest/HBJ book .
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.
Publisher description : A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley's entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. "Loren Eiseley's work changed my life" (Ray Bradbury). Introduction by W. H. Auden.
0156849097 (pbk.)
79010406
Poetry.
PS3555.I78 / S75 1979
818/.5/409