The Star Thrower

A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley's entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist, and humanist. "Loren Eiseley's work changed my life" (Ray Bradbury). Introduction by W. H. Auden.

Editor's Preface

11

(15)

Introduction: Concerning the Unpredictable

15

(12)

I NATURE AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The Judgment of the Birds

27

(10)

The Long Loneliness

37

(8)

Man the Firemaker

45

(8)

The Innocent Fox

53

(13)

How Flowers Changed the World

66

(10)

The Ghostly Guardian

76

(7)

The Bird and the Machine

83

(9)

The Fire Apes

92

(4)

Easter: The Isle of Faces

96

(10)

The Dance of the Frogs

106

(10)

The Hidden Teacher

116

(13)

The Fifth Planet

129

(10)

The Last Neanderthal

139

(16)

II EARLY POEMS

The Spider

155

(1)

Tasting the Mountain Spring

156

(1)

Things Will Go

157

(1)

Leaving September

158

(1)

Nocturne in Silver

159

(1)

Winter Sign

160

(1)

October Has the Heart

161

(1)

Dusk Interval

162

(2)

Let the Red Fox Run

164

(1)

The Fishers

165

(4)

III SCIENCE AND HUMANISM

The Star Thrower

169

(17)

Science and the Sense of the Holy

186

(16)

The Winter of Man

202

(5)

Man Against the Universe

207

(15)

Thoreau's Vision of the Natural World

222

(13)

Walden: Thoreau's Unfinished Business

235

(16)

The Lethal Factor

251

(16)

The Illusion of the Two Cultures

267

(13)

How Natural Is ``Natural''?

280

(17)

The Inner Galaxy

297

(16)

Honors and Awards

313

(4)

Acknowledgments

317

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