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

Miller, Lulu, 1983- author.

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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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Educators United States Biography

Ichthyologists United States Biography

Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931

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Stanford University Presidents Biography

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ISBN:

9781501160271
1501160273

Edition:

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition

Description:

225 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-225)

Contents:

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

Control Number:

2879975

Other Authors:

Samworth, Kate, illustrator

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