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The Immense Journey : An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
The Immense Journey An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature
Author: Loren Eiseley
ISBN-13: 9780394701578
ISBN-10: 0394701577
Publication Date: 1/12/1959
Pages: 224
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 19 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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catlingmex avatar reviewed The Immense Journey : An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature on + 53 more book reviews
A wonderful book; wonder-ful, as in full of wonder.
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From the back cover: In an unusual blend of scientifc knowledge and imaginative vision, Loren Eiseley tells the story of man. Anthropologist and naturalist, Dr. Eiseley reveal's life's endless mysteries in his own experienced, departing from their immediacy into meditations on the long past, wandering--intimate with nature--along the paths and byways of time, and then returning to the present.

[Note: My 1959 Vintage edition has a different cover] Interesting attempt by a scientist to put his ponderings on the meaning of life into words.
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"There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."---Albert Einstein

This is a book for those who think, without recourse to standardized religions, that everything is a miracle.
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It is well written, but did not engage this reader enough to finish the book. It was donated to a little free library.