The Night Country (Paperback, New Ed)

"The whole infinite ladder of life was filled with this backward yearning." Treading lightly through the shadows Eiseley revisits the caverns and gulches and secret sewers of his boyhood - "I was a curiously deprived and solitary child" - to glimpse the elusive correspondences of the animated universe: pigeons, field mice, wasps peer at him as portents and omens of life's indeterminacy. Archaeologist and literary naturalist, "skull collector" and "bone hunter," he is - in this tremulous, intimate essay - Charon piloting gingerly through the nether regions, "learning to read time from surfaces other than clocks," listening like his kinsman Thoreau, to the protean writhings of Nature. The interior monologue of a pantheist, The Night Country is filled with scraps of childhood memories, the phantoms of the insomniac, awe and terror at "this ghostliness of myself" and a chronic, sometimes morbid hypersensitivity to ghosties and ghoulies and long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. . . . Believers in "authoritarian science" committed to unearthing "salvation in facts" had better turn elsewhere; like the medievalists Eiseley reads nature as the second book of God's revelation, mysterious and heavy with latent, lurking fertility. His sizable audience should welcome the latest voyage in search of the secret springs of creativity - evolutionary, cosmic, mental - as a muted adumbration of temporal mortality. A delicate and fragile je ne sais quoi. . . . (Kirkus Reviews)

Toward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. "The Night Country" is a gift of wisdom and beauty from the famed anthropologist. It describes his needy childhood in Nebraska, reveals his increasing sensitivity to the odd and ordinary in nature, and focuses on a career that turns him inward as he reaches outward for answers in old bones.

General

Imprint:	Bison Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 1997
First published:	June 1997
Authors:	Loren Eiseley
Introduction by:	Gale E Christianson
Dimensions:	230 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	241
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6735-0
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-8032-6735-5
Barcode:	9780803267350

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