![]() Eiseley has written a work of true science which must surely take its place also as great literature. The appearance of such a book as this is an event.Dr. ![]() ![]() glows with the wisdom and originality of a scientist who has pondered the riddle of existence and possesses the eloquence to put his thinking into words.'-John Barkham in the Saturday Review Syndicate 'He is the master of an imaginative and swiftly moving prose that grips the reder and bears him willingly to enchanted realms. Eiseley reveals life's endless mysteries in his own experiences, departing from their immediacy into meditaionts on the long past, wandering-intimate with nature-along the paths and byways of time, and then returning to the present.'Once in a long while the reviewer comes across an unpetentious book which is such a delight that he feels like going out into the street and buttonholing passers-by into sharing his peasure. From coverIn an unsusual blend of Scientific knowledge and imaginative vision, Loren Eiseley tells the story of man. ![]()
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