![]() ![]() ![]() However, we are told in the introduction that during Eiseley’s last illness, he had asked Mabel, his wife, to burn his notebooks.Įiseley was amazingly meticulous about his published work. Not that Eiseley had hidden many of his personal thoughts his autobiographical “The Night Country” attests differently. Reading these “Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley” filled me at various times with guil1948279155inner workings of this man’s journal of ideas, reflections and tremendously personal comments that he would have never allowed me or anyone else to see in his lifetime. Nevertheless, rewarding as it is to read this last of Eiseley’s works, I, for one, am uncomfortable with the manner in which the material for this book was obtained and published. Eiseley’s great genius for the art of the word coupled with a poetic insight into the connection between science and humanism shines through in page after page of this book much as it did in his 14 previously published books of prose and poetry, which included, among others, “The Immense Journey,” “The Invisible Pyramid” and “All the Strange Hours.” Overall, this new book provides an opportunity to trace the genesis of his ideas during the various phases of his life and their relations to his later finished works. In one sense, historians, literary critics and admirers of the prose and poetry of the late anthropologist Loren Eiseley will be greatly rewarded in reading this, his final book. ![]()
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