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Why Fish Don't Exist
A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025 When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidance—the 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring over his diaries, Lulu discovers a man obsessed with nature's hidden order, devoted to studying shimmering scales and...
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The quirky and profound international bestseller - at once a life-affirming memoir on how to live well in a world governed by chaos, and a darkly astonishing scientific biography
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025
When Lulu Miller's relationship falls apart, she turns to an unlikely figure for guidance—the 19th-century naturalist, David Starr Jordan. Pouring over his diaries, Lulu discovers a man obsessed with nature's hidden order, devoted to studying shimmering scales and sailing the world in search of new species of fish.
After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake sends more than a thousand of Jordan's specimens, housed in glass jars, plummeting to the ground, his story of resilience leads Lulu to believe she has found the antidote to life's unpredictability. But lurking behind the tale of this great taxonomist lies a darker story waiting to be told: one about the human cost of attempting to define the form of things unknown.
An idiosyncratic, personal approach to this fascinating scientific biography, Why Fish Don't Exist is an astonishing tale of newfound love, scientific discovery and how to live well in a world governed by chaos.
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ISBN: 9781805331926
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: ONE
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 135.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Lulu Miller is the cohost of Radiolab, host of the kids podcast Terrestrials, and author of the bestselling book Why Fish Don't Exist.
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