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THE INVISIBLE PYRAMID -- A NATURALIST ANALYSES THE ROCKET CENTURY |
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ALSO BY LOREN EISELEY THE IMMENSE JOURNEY, 1957
WOODCUTS BY WALTER FERRO DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF FRANK G. SPECK (TO ME, THE LAST MAGICIAN) ABOUT THE AUTHOR Loren Eiseley, Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, spent his boyhood among the salt flats and sunflower forests of eastern Nebraska and the High Plains beyond the 99th meridian. Author of several award-winning books, Dr. Eiseley is widely known both as a naturalist and as a humanist. His work is represented in many anthologies of English prose. Dr. Eiseley has lectured at leading institutions of learning throughout the United States and has been the recipient of many honorary degrees. He serves on the Advisory Board to the National Parks system and is a past Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as being Curator of Early Man in the University Museum. THE INVISIBLE PYRAMID "A poetic cry, even a mystical one, seeks
to remind man that his dreams, his skill, his understanding, which have
catapulted him into space, have also polluted his environment and
endangered his very existence on earth." "He was one of the very first scientists
to proclaim publicly that mankind must reinsert into into nature.
His words created a new kind of poetical literature based on objective
scientific knowledge and his warning helped start a new social movement.
As the seers of the axial religions did 2000 years ago, he is teaching
our generation to recapture that cosmic sense which is unique to man." "Loren Eiseley is the finest living
essayist working in his field. The Invisible Pyramid is poetry
born from that fine mind." "A highly perceptive analysis of our
current condition ... This is a book to own and to read and re-read ...
May its message penetrate the minds of our elected leaders before the
last hour of hope has irretrievably passed." LOREN EISELEY
Loren Eiseley has been widely acclaimed by critics as one of the finest literary stylists writing today. His election in 1971 to the National Institute of Arts and Letters attests this standing and is at the same time a unique achievement among professional archaeologists and human paleontologists.
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