The Star Thrower

by Eiseley, Loren

• ISBN13: 9780156849098
• ISBN10: 0156849097
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1979-09-01
• Publisher: INGRAM
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	11	(15)
Introduction: Concerning the Unpredictable	15	(12)
I NATURE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Judgment of the Birds	27	(10)
The Long Loneliness	37	(8)
Man the Firemaker	45	(8)
The Innocent Fox	53	(13)
How Flowers Changed the World	66	(10)
The Ghostly Guardian	76	(7)
The Bird and the Machine	83	(9)
The Fire Apes	92	(4)
Easter: The Isle of Faces	96	(10)
The Dance of the Frogs	106	(10)
The Hidden Teacher	116	(13)
The Fifth Planet	129	(10)
The Last Neanderthal	139	(16)
II EARLY POEMS
The Spider	155	(1)
Tasting the Mountain Spring	156	(1)
Things Will Go	157	(1)
Leaving September	158	(1)
Nocturne in Silver	159	(1)
Winter Sign	160	(1)
October Has the Heart	161	(1)
Dusk Interval	162	(2)
Let the Red Fox Run	164	(1)
The Fishers	165	(4)
III SCIENCE AND HUMANISM
The Star Thrower	169	(17)
Science and the Sense of the Holy	186	(16)
The Winter of Man	202	(5)
Man Against the Universe	207	(15)
Thoreau's Vision of the Natural World	222	(13)
Walden: Thoreau's Unfinished Business	235	(16)
The Lethal Factor	251	(16)
The Illusion of the Two Cultures	267	(13)
How Natural Is ``Natural''?	280	(17)
The Inner Galaxy	297	(16)
Honors and Awards	313	(4)
Acknowledgments	317