The star thrower
By: Loren C. Eiseley ; introd. by W. H. Auden.
Publisher: Times Books
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Description: The Judgment 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 -- Honors and Awards -- Acknowledgments.