Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos Vol. 1 [Hardcover]

For the first time, the collected essays of a uniquely elegant science and nature writer: profound, intimate reflections on evolution and other wonders of the natural world in the tradition of Thoreau, Darwin, and Muir. Second of two volumes. An eminent paleontologist with the soul and skill of a poet, Loren Eiseley (1907-1977) was among the 20th-century's greatest inheritors of the literary tradition of Henry David Thoreau, Charles Darwin, and John Muir, and a precursor to such later writers as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, and Carl Sagan. After decades of fieldwork and discovery as a "bone-hunter" and professor, he turned, late in life, to the personal essay, producing an astonishing succession of books that won acclaim both as science and as art. Here, for the first time in a single edition, are all of Eiseley's beloved, thought-provoking, meditative, sometimes darkly lyrical essay collections, from his surprise bestseller The Immense Journey (1957) to his posthumous The Star