Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born. The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to...
Biography
Name:
Loren Corey Eiseley
Birth Date:
September 3, 1907
Death Date:
1977
Place of Birth:
Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Nationality:
American
Gender:
Male
Occupations:
anthropologist, paleontologist, author, scientist, professor
Trained as an anthropologist and paleontologist, Loren Corey Eiseley (1907-1977) became one of the foremost essayists of his generation to interpret science for the layman. Of Scots-English and German pioneering stock, Loren Corey Eiseley was born in...
September 3, 1907. Born in the bleak farm country of Lincoln, Nebraska, the only child of Clyde, a traveling salesman, and Daisy Corey Eiseley. "I was a child of the early century, American man, if the term may still be tolerated. A creature molded of...
Anthropologist, educator, historian of science, and poet, Loren Eiseley is best known as the essayist who explained the processes and implications of evolution, especially human evolution, to the lay reader. His lyrical prose and his knowledge of...
Loren Corey Eiseley (September 3, 1907–July 9, 1977) was a highly respected anthropologist, science writer, ecologist, and poet. He published books of essays, biography, and general science in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. Eiseley is best known for...
The anthropologist Loren Eiseley finished his memoir, All the Strange Hours, just prior to dying in 1977. The memoir touches on Eiseley's early childhood, but only briefly, and there is no mention of friends or lovers. The writing is excellent, and the reader learns...
Scientist-writers Rachel Carson and Loren Eiseley use a variety of narrative strategies to describe natural phenomena and explain scientific concepts. These techniques also contribute to an incisive yet balanced critique of science, one rooted in an ethical approach to nature, a rejection of anthropocentrism,...
Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2007. There are 251 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 24, 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by...
