![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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, "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. ![]() ![]() There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision."- New York Times Book Review, "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. The beauty of The Invisible Pyramid is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note. "A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man and twists from him some of the best prose we have. ![]()
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