![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision. Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote. The beauty of The Invisible Pyramid is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note. "A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man and twists from him some of the best prose we have. His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."- The Bloomsbury Review In Invisible Pyramid, Eiseley speaks to each of these issues and like the Taoist scholars of ancient China before him, he points to a direction which we must follow as a species if we wish to find our way out of this dilemma, to find our way home. ![]() Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available.We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers. The Immense Journey Loren Eiseley Author (2011) The Unexpected Universe Loren Eiseley Author William Cronon Editor (2016) The Invisible Pyramid Loren. ![]()
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