hey provide more than a glimpse into Eiseley's mind and imagination. Carefully selected and edited by Kenneth Heuer, Eiseley's editor at Scribners, these notes, jottings, musings, and beginnings and endings will enhance any dedicated reader's knowledge of this most remarkable literary naturalist. Eiseley published four volumes of poetry during his lifetime: Notes of an Alchemist (1972), The Innocent Assassins (1973), Another Kind of Autumn (1977), and. Provide depth, substance, and plenty of room for further exploration.The notebooks are a wonderful way to see a mind at work. "The best preparation a devoted reader could have for rereading the works of this author. "It is a joy, like finding a lost Rembrandt in the attic, to discover that Eiseley left behind a legacy."- San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle This is a book that will be read and quoted and whose pages will grow thin with wear from hands in continued search of new meaning within its words and images."- Los Angeles Times "Eiseley's great genius for the art of the word coupled with a poetic insight into the connection between science and humanism shines through in page after page. to the extensive and enlightening glimpses it affords into the intellectual and emotional workshop of one of the most original and influential American essayists of this century."- New York Times Book Review "This volume contains much that Eiseley devotees will be grateful for, from the useful biographical overviews. "As this posthumous collection verifies, Eiseley has rightly been called 'the modern Thoreau.'"- Publishers Weekly
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