The Night Country

A Library of America eBook Classic

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects
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Author: Loren Eiseley ISBN: 9781598535471
Publisher: Library of America Publication: November 15, 2016
Imprint: Library of America Language: English
Author: Loren Eiseley
ISBN: 9781598535471
Publisher: Library of America
Publication: November 15, 2016
Imprint: Library of America
Language: English

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 evolution of consciousness.

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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 evolution of consciousness.

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