Similarly I am glad to seize this opportunity to mention the many provocative conversations which have taken place with my university colleagues, Froelich Rainey, Director of the University Museum, and Dale Coman, M.D., of the University Medical School. I should also like to express my thanks to my friend and former colleague, the astronomer Frank Bradshaw Wood, of the University of Florida, Gainesville, for information cheerfully supplied me upon the elliptic of Halley’s comet.
It gives me pleasure to express to the members of the Danz family my appreciation of their interest and generosity, as well as to the administrative staff of the University, who were my hosts. THE THEME of this book was developed through a series of lectures delivered under the auspices of the John Danz Fund at the University of Washington in Seattle in the Fall of 1969. Visit our website at to find out more about Library of America and to explore our popular Story of the Week and Moviegoer features. Each year the Library adds new volumes to its collection of essential works by America’s foremost novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, and statesmen. LIBRARY OF AMERICA, a nonprofit publisher, is dedicated to publishing, and keeping in print, authoritative editions of America’s best and most significant writing. Reprinted by arrangement with the Trustees of theĭistributed to the trade in the United StatesĪnd in Canada by Penguin Random House Canada Ltd. The Invisible Pyramid copyright © 1970 by Loren Eiseley. Without the permission of the publisher, except in the case ofīrief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever There is an unstated but real gothic terror prowling behind his vision.Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. Eiseley is a master of significant anecdote.
The beauty of The Invisible Pyramid is that it communicates the awesome spectacle of our environmental crisis without a single shrill note. "A relentless haunting and haunted figure devils the man and twists from him some of the best prose we have. His writing delivered science to nonscientists in the lyrical language of earthly metaphor, irony, simile, and narrative, all paced like a good mystery."- The Bloomsbury Review Eiseley made the leap at a time when science was science, and literature was, well, literature. His extended explorations of human life and mind, set against the backdrop of our own and other universes are like those to be found in every book of nature writing currently available.We now routinely expect our nature writers to leap across the chasm between science, natural history, and poetry with grace and ease. "There can be no question that Loren Eiseley maintains a place of eminence among nature writers.
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