The Star ThrowerA 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. |
Contents
Editors Preface | 11 |
The Judgment of the Birds | 27 |
The Long Loneliness | 37 |
Man the Firemaker | 45 |
The Innocent Fox | 53 |
How Flowers Changed the World | 66 |
The Ghostly Guardian | 76 |
The Bird and the Machine | 83 |
The Spider | 155 |
Nocturne in Silver | 159 |
The Fishers | 165 |
Science and the Sense of the Holy | 186 |
The Winter of Man | 202 |
Thoreaus Vision of the Natural World | 222 |
Thoreaus Unfinished Business | 235 |
The Lethal Factor | 251 |
The Fire Apes | 92 |
The Dance of the Frogs | 106 |
The Hidden Teacher | 116 |
The Fifth Planet | 129 |
The Last Neanderthal | 139 |
The Illusion of the Two Cultures | 267 |
How Natural Is Natural? | 280 |
The Inner Galaxy | 297 |
Honors and Awards | 313 |
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