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:print 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition:First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher:New York, NY :Simon & Schuster,2020.
Content descriptions
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.