Nature Writer, Loren Eiseley

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    In the first of a four-part series on writers who have shaped his interest in Nature and the ocean, host Peter Neill highlights the work of 20th century American writer Loren Eiseley. Eiseley was a researcher, teacher, scholar, essayist, and poet. He was an academic who was both a scientist and a humanist, one who maintains a place of eminence in the literary world, now more than 30 years after his death. His work was once described as delivering “science to non-scientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, simile, and narrative…”

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Works by Loren Eiseley:
< The Immense Journey
<
Darwin's Century
< The Firmament of Time
< The Mind as Nature
< The Unexpected Universe
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Learn more at: www.eiseley.org