The Unexpected UniverseHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969 - 239 pages Drawing from his long experience as a naturalist, the author responds to the unexpected and symbolic aspects of a wide spectrum of phenomena throughout the universe. Scrupulous scholarship and magical prose are brought to bear on such diverse topics as seeds, the hieroglyphs on shells, lost tombs, the goddess Circe, city dumps, and Neanderthal man. |
Contents
The Hidden Teacher | 48 |
FOUR | 67 |
FIVE | 93 |
The Golden Alphabet | 120 |
The Invisible Island | 147 |
EIGHT | 172 |
NINE | 194 |
The Last Neanderthal | 213 |
Bibliography | 235 |
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