![]() ![]() There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision. Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. 2 (LOA 286): The Invisible Pyramid, The Night Country, essays from The Star. The beauty of The Invisible Pyramid is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note. Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos Vol. ![]() Resources The Loren Eiseley Society University of Pennsylvania Archives. "A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man and twists from him some of the best prose we have. In The Invisible Pyramid, Eiseley reminds us that the dreams, skills and understanding of people have catapulted us into space, while at the same time we have polluted and endangered our existence on earth. His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."- The Bloomsbury Review Chapter for Death and Anti-Death: 30 years after Loren Eiseley, Edited Charles Tandy, Ria University Press. Review: In July 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed on the surface of the moon, a. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. A collection of his stories on nature and life. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available.We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. ![]() "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. ![]()
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