The Immense Journey (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Loren Eiseley
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Work: Nature/essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Nature writing
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Human race, Life, biological, Evolution, Biology or biologists, Thought or thinking
Form and Content
By profession a physical anthropologist, university administrator, and lecturer, Loren Eiseley was nevertheless an essayist by choice and a poet by temperament. His works include fifteen published volumes: Darwin’s Century: Evolution and the Men Who Discovered It (1958), a work of scholarship whose conclusion reflects his development as a popular essayist; six collections of popular essays; a biography of Francis Bacon; a loosely structured series of reminiscences published as an autobiography, All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life...
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