Top Five Loren Eiseley Books
(Eiseley is probably my favorite nature writer. He was already out of fashion by the time I discovered him in college—c. 1991—and I sense that he’s even less widely read today: a shame, because he writes so beautifully, so humanely, and so mournfully. I’ve ranked these books in order of preference, leaving out his 1978 anthology The Star Thrower, though that’s a good place to start if you’re unfamiliar with his work.)
The Unexpected Universe (1969)
The Night Country: Reflections of a Bone-Hunting Man (1971)
The Immense Journey (1957)
The Invisible Pyramid: A Naturalist Analyses the Rocket Century (1971)
The Lost Notebooks of Loren Eiseley, edited by Kenneth Heuer (1987)
— April 10, 2026