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nkspas's review
5.0
Naturists, anthropologists, environmentalists, philosophers, and teachers, lend me your ears. This is the book for you! Loren Eiseley lived from 1907 to 1977 and is listed as all of those things in his online biography. Thankfully those diverse experiences come together wonderfully in this powerful series of essays originally delivered as a series of lectures at the University of Washington in 1969. Eiseley offers a wild sense of vertigo as he masterfully zooms us across spacetime to give us a sense of place in the cosmos. Did you ever read that “Pale Blue Dot” passage by Carl Sagan? If you liked that, you’ll love this book. I think this is the book I was always hoping to find whenever I picked up A Brief History Of Time by Stephen Hawking which I found difficult. Also great for folks who loved Sapiens or The Power of Myth.
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