The star thrower /

Eiseley, Loren C., 1907-1977.

The star thrower / Loren C. Eiseley ; introd. by W.H. Auden. - New York : Times Books, c1978. - 319 p. ; 24 cm.

Concerning the unpredictable -- The judgement of the birds -- The long loneliness -- Man the firemaker -- The innocent fox -- How flowers changed the world -- The ghostly guardian -- The bird and the machine -- The fire apes -- Easter : the isle of faces -- The dance of the frogs -- The hidden teacher -- The fifth planet -- The last Neanderthal -- The spider -- Tasting the mountain spring -- Things will go -- Leaving September -- Nocturne in silver -- Winter sign -- October has the heart -- Dusk interval -- Let the red fox run -- The fishers -- The star thrower -- Science and the sense of the holy -- The winter of man -- Man against the universe -- Thoreau's vision of the natural world -- Walden : Thoreau's unfinished business -- The lethal factor -- The illusion of the two cultures -- How natural is "natural"? -- The inner galaxy. Introduction :

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