![]() Eiseley Loren The Firmament of Time HC mit SU - 14 x 21 cm - Verlag: Athenaeum, New York - 2. Dust Jacket Condition: guter Schutzumschlag. Some thought of him as "the modern Thoreau.". Among his bestselling books were The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), and The Night Country (1971). Loren Eiseley (1907 - 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer. EXCEPTIONAL copy of "lost notebooks" by the noted naturalist that include his nature and philosophical musings along with biographical photos and excellent nature sketches by Leslie Morrill. Small quarto (6 1/4" x 10 1/4"), brown quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over parchment-like boards with facsimile signature of Loren Eiseley on front cover, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a fine sepia drawing of Eiseley's head over which a hawk and cougar's heads have been superimposed, illustrated with more than 27 B&W glossy photographs about Eiseley, and many in-text B&W nature sketches by Leslie Morrill, endpapers reproduce pages from LE's notebooks, + 260 pages. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Leslie Morrill & B&W photos (illustrator). ![]()
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