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The Unexpected Universe

Loren Eiseley

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#2648 of 3,809 books · #275 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1970).

This 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.

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Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
ISBN-13
9780803267473
Topics
Natural historyAnthropology and archaeologyHuman existence and philosophy

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  • Darwin's Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (1958)1 win · 5 score

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