The Unexpected Universe

Author: Loren Eiseley
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535455
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245

Book Description
“No one has ever managed to make the pursuit of knowledge feel more soulful or more immediate than Loren Eiseley . . . ” —Ben Cosgrove, The Daily Beast 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.”

The Unexpected Universe

Author: Loren Eiseley
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780544313149
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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The Unexpected Universe

Author: Loren C. Eiseley
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156928502
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 239

Book Description
A naturalist explores the mystical symbolism of nature as he reflects upon man's evolution and scientific endeavor

The Unexpected Universe of Doris Lessing

Author: Katherine Fishburn
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
In this first study of Doris Lessing's science fiction, Fishburn devotes a chapter to each of Lessing's seven novels. Her major argument is that Lessing uses these novels to change our perception of reality by describing worlds that are simultaneously similar to and different from our own. Of particular importance is the fact that each narrator, by functioning as an intermediary or guide-leader, helps skeptical readers to experience the alien worlds of Lessing's imagination. As she traces the development of these seven narrators, Fishburn shows how they eventually fulfill the role of the idealized author Lessing described in The Small Personal Voice. In examining how these texts challenge us to change, Fishburn discusses the influence of Marxist and Sufi thought on Lessing and also points out the striking similarity betwen Lessing's philosophy of wholeness and the discoveries of modern physics.

Unexpected Universe

Author: Loren Eiseley
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417617432
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A naturalist explores the mystical symbolism of nature as he reflects upon man's evolution and scientific endeavor

Faith Rising—Between the Lines

Author: David B. Bowman
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1666700320
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 132

Book Description
This writing intends to rouse would-be believers to faith--or enhance the faith of others--through the adventure of modern fiction. While taking note of the secularity of our era, the author insists the Spirit of God has not departed the scene. The opening poem by Emily Dickinson, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant," proposes the author's contention that the "indirect discourse" of fictional writers may welcome readers to faith's door in ways sermonic speech never did. The modern authors chosen for this purpose are Izak Dinesen, Annie Dillard, Kent Haruf, Loren Eiseley, Gary Trudeau, Garrison Keillor, William Golding, Walker Percy, Frederick Buechner, and Gabriel Marcel. Having explained one work each by these noted authors, the book closes by pointing to ways in which embedded faith may rise out of these pages to meet the reader where he or she lives.

Loren Eiseley's Exploration of The Unexpected Universe

Author: Christopher Lee Walton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Dr. Eiseley's Universe

Author: Nancy Wilson Ross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The Unexpected Universe

Author: Georg Schaarwachter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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The Night Country

Author: Loren Eiseley
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535471
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
One of America’s most beloved naturalists reflects on the “fallibility of science, the mystery of evolution, and the surprise of life” in this fascinating essay collection (Time) Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley’s essays in The Night Country explore those moments, often dark and unexpected, when chance encounters disturb our ordinary understandings of the universe. The naturalist here seeks neither “salvation in facts” nor solace in wild places: discovering an old bone or a nest of wasps, or remembering the haunted spaces of his lonely Nebraska childhood, Eiseley recognizes what he calls “the ghostliness of myself,” his own mortality, and the paradoxes of the evolution of consciousness.