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

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: 9781501160370
ISBN: 1501160370
ISBN: 1501160273
ISBN: 9781501160271
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2020.

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Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Prologue -- Chapter 1: A Boy with His Head in the Stars -- Chapter 2: A Prophet on an Island -- Chapter 3: A Godless Interlude -- Chapter 4: Chasing Tail -- Chapter 5: Genesis in a Jar -- Chapter 6: Smash -- Chapter 7: The Indestructible -- Chapter 8: On Delusion -- Chapter 9: The Bitterest Thing in the World -- Chapter 10: A Veritable Chamber of Horrors -- Chapter 11: The Ladder -- Chapter 12: Dandelions -- Chapter 13: Deus ex Machina -- Epilogue -- A Note on the Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Notes -- Copyright

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