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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Night Country (1966)di Loren Eiseley
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() Loren Eisley has sadly become less known; as a scientist, he was sui generis. He described his identity as an archaeologist as a "bone man"; The Night Country is a vivid sensory/ poetic exploration of his bone-picking. As a boy, Eisley was a hobo; as a philosopher, he illuminated the lives of dogs, the bitterness of death's fingerings, and a remarkable analysis of the impact of Christianity on civilization that is illuminative, yet not harmful, to one's secularist tendencies. Eisley was not a science populaizer, but a humanizer of science...alone, and a titan, in his field. Actually, i have only read far older copies but i am delighted to learn of this reprint and clicked on it. Only the Japanese translation is with me now. I helped the translators so much with it that they asked the chief editor if I might do the explanation (kaisetsu), a postscript standard for translators in Japan. I did. One thing noted in the postscript was that Annie Dillard in Best American Essays 1988 gave Eiseley credit for reviving nonfiction with his symbolic essays. (She also made a good case for nonfiction being offering more freedom than fiction. After which, her next book was a novel, which infuriated me to no end!). "The Star Thrower" (which we also got translated)has most of Eiseley’s best essays and some awful poems not published elsewhere. As a single book, "Night Country" may be his best. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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HTML:One of America??s most beloved naturalists reflects on the ??fallibility of science, the mystery of evolution, and the surprise of life? in this fascinating essay collection (Time) Weaving together memoir, philosophical reflection, and his always keen observations of the natural world, Loren Eiseley??s 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 evo Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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