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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

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781501160271
  • ISBN: 1501160273
  • Physical Description: print
    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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Subject: Jordan, David Starr 1851-1931
Naturalists United States Biography
Ichthyologists United States Biography
Educators United States Biography
Stanford University Presidents Biography
Biology Classification
Jordan, David Starr 1851-1931
Stanford University.
Biology
Educators
Ichthyologists
Naturalists
Presidents
United States
Genre: Biographies.
Biographies.
Classification.

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Homer Public Library 590.92 MIL (Text) 000158413 Nonfiction Checked out 03/28/2024
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