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100 1 _aEiseley, Loren C.,
_d1907-1977.
245 1 4 _aThe star thrower /
_cLoren Eiseley ; introd. by W. H. Auden.
250 _a1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarcourt Brace Jovanovich,
_c1979, c1978.
300 _a319 p. ;
_c20 cm.
490 0 _aA Harvest/HBJ book
505 0 _aThe judgment of the birds -- The long loneliness -- Man the firemaker -- The innocent fox -- How flowers changed the world -- The ghostly guardian -- The bird and the machine -- The fire apes -- Easter : the isle of faces -- The dance of the frogs -- The hidden teacher -- The fifth planet -- The last Neanderthal -- The spider -- Tasting the mountain spring -- Things will go -- Leaving September -- Nocturne in silver -- Winter sign -- October has the heart -- Dusk interval -- Let the red fox run -- The fishers -- The star thrower -- Science and the sense of the holy -- The winter of man -- Man against the universe -- Thoreau's vision of the natural world -- Walden : Thoreau's unfinished business -- The lethal factor -- The illusion of the two cultures -- How natural is "natural"? -- The inner galaxy.
520 _aPublisher description : A 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.
655 7 _aPoetry.
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