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Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life Cover Image Book Book

Why fish don't exist : a story of loss, love, and the hidden order of life / Lulu Miller ; illustrations by Kate Samworth.

Miller, Lulu, 1983- (author.). Samworth, Kate, (illustrator.).

Summary:

Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781501160271
  • ISBN: 1501160273
  • Physical Description: 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225).
Formatted Contents Note:
A boy with his head in the stars -- A prophet on an island -- A godless interlude -- Chasing tail -- Genesis in a jar -- Smash -- The indestructible -- On delusion -- The bitterest thing in the world -- A veritable chamber of horrors -- The ladder -- Dandelions -- Deus ex machina.

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Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
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