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The Night Country 🔍
Loren Eiseley; illustrations by Leonard Everett Fisher; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Gale E. Christianson Bison Books, 1971
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Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseleys essays in The Night Country explore those moments, often dark and unexpected, when chance encounters disturb our ordinary understandings of the universe. The naturalist here seeks neither salvation in facts nor solace in wild places: discovering an old bone or a nest of wasps, or remembering the haunted spaces of his lonely Nebraska childhood, Eiseley recognizes what he calls the ghostliness of myself, his own mortality, and the paradoxes of the evolution of consciousness.
Alternative author
Loren C. Eiseley
Alternative publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Alternative edition
United States, United States of America
Alternative edition
Bison books edition, Lincoln, 1997
Alternative edition
Lincoln, Nebraska, 1997
Alternative edition
New edition, PS, 1997
metadata comments
Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-240).
"First Bison Books printing"--T.p. verso.
Originally published: New York : Scribner, 1971. With new introd.
Alternative description
<p><p>Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. <I>The Night Country</I> is a gift of wisdom and beauty from the famed anthropologist. It describes his needy childhood in Nebraska, reveals his increasing sensitivity to the odd and ordinary in nature, and focuses on a career that turns him inward as he reaches outward for answers in old bones.<p></p> <h3>Christian Century</h3> <p>"A sort of Odyssey by a man in dialogue with nature and evolution; Eiseley remains one of our foremost humanists-and prose stylists."</p>
Alternative description
The gold wheel.-The places below.-Big eyes and small eyes.-Instruments of darkness.-The chresmologue.-Paw marks and buried towns.-Barbed wire and brown skulls.-The relic men.-Strangeness in the proportion.-The creature from the marsh.-One night's dying.-Obituary of a bone hunter.-The mind as nature.-The brown wasps.-Bibliography: (p.239-240).
Alternative description
A collection of autobiographical essays in which the author, anthropologist Loren Eiseley, reflects on the mysteries of life and nature
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2023-12-18
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