![]() ![]() There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision. Introducing The Invisible Pyramid is Paul Gruchow, a professor of English at Concordia College and the author of Boundary Waters: The Grace of the Wild.-This text refers to an alternate kindleedition edition. Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. Loren Eiseley’s many works include The Night Country (Bison Books 1997). “A relentless, haunting, and haunted figure devils the man and twists from him some of the best prose we have. II: The Invisible Pyramid, the Night Country, Essays from the Star Thrower. As Western civilization attains new heights of scientific awareness and technological skill, he asks, is it also blind to its own limits and destructive capacities? Always a fond observer of the natural world, Eiseley makes a newly urgent, environmentalist plea in The Invisible Pyramid: we must protect the fragile “world island” against our unchecked power to pollute and consume it. Shop Loren Eiseley: Collected Essays on Evolution, Nature, and the Cosmos, Vol. ![]() In this brilliant collection, he considers the cosmological significance and ultimate meanings of our evolutionary history, offering a series of profound, lyrical meditations on the origins and possible futures of humankind against the backdrop of the Apollo landings. ![]() To read Loren Eiseley is to renew a sense of wonder at the miracles and paradoxes of evolution and the ever-changing diversity of life. A revered ecologist and conservationist examines the origins and possible futures of humankind within the context of the Space Age, masterfully “ the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis” ( New York Times Book Review) ![]()
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