The Lost Notebooks of Loren EiseleyThis indispensable collection is filled with marvelous autobiographical glimpses of Loren Eiseley at different points in his life-as a young, inquisitive man during the Depression, as an astute archaeologist, as a blossoming writer, and lastly, as a world-renowned observer and essayist. Also included are poems, short stories, an array of Eiseley's absorbing observations on the natural world, and his always startling reflections on the nature and future of humankind and the universe. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
The Gate and the Road 19071947 II | 73 |
The Ultimate Snow 19661977 | 157 |
CONCLUSION | 249 |
Acknowledgments | 259 |
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