Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren EiseleyLoren Eiseley challenges us to this day with his uneasy interpretation of humanity's place in the world. The haunting melancholy that pervades much of Eiseley's work grewøout of a loveless childhood in which he spent much time alone in the natural world. His mother was mentally ill and his father, a singularly unsuccessful traveling salesman, spent little time at home. Perhaps in an effort to compensate, Eiseley drove himself relentlessly to succeed. Gale E. Christian-son's biography offers an unexpurgated evaluation of a man whose difficult past helped shape the brilliant essays that continue to dazzle new audiences. |
Contents
Progenitors | 1 |
A House of Gesture | 15 |
T C H S | 36 |
Some Destiny Not Decided | 55 |
Death of a Salesman | 75 |
The Tearstains of Remembering | 91 |
Les Mauvaises Terres | 109 |
Masks | 133 |
Counterplaint of an Anthropologist | 215 |
The Time for Confidence and Promises | 236 |
Anatomy of a Journey | 258 |
The Greatest Victim of All | 298 |
At Sixes and Sevens | 319 |
The Fifth Horseman | 333 |
A Dancer in the Ring | 354 |
The Secular Puritan | 377 |
The Hunters and the Hunted | 152 |
Mount Oread | 175 |
A Big Strapping Fine Fellow | 190 |
Imago | 402 |
Frequently Used Sources | 484 |
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