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At the height of a distinguished career as a paleontologist, Loren Eiseley turned from fieldwork and scientific publication to the personal essay. Here, in The Unexpected Universe, he displays his far-reaching knowledge and searching curiosity about the natural world, and the qualities that led many to hail him as a ';modern Thoreau.' Fascinating accounts of the journeys of Odysseus, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin frame Eiseley's more modest wanderings as a suburban naturalist, attentive to the lives of small creatures. Sometimes he travels no further than the local dump: and yet, like Homer's hero or these great explorers, he continually finds a universe ';not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.'
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