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Ebook About A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. “At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish…comes up for air, and realizes she’s in love. That’s how I felt: Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten.” —The New York Times Book ReviewDavid Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool—a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.Book Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Review :
This book is currently listed as #1 in Amazon's ichthyology category, so a potential reader might surmise that there's actually something to do with that subject is this book, or perhaps at least the taxonomy of fish generally. There is not. Instead this is a biography of taxonomist David Starr Jordan (also first President of Stanford, which is considerably more important to the book's content in several ways) melded with a personal memoir of the author. It is highly readable and engaging, and offers an interesting discussion of the philosophy of life from a non-religious perspective. However, I feel it is important to note that this book has essentially no information about science, the scientific process, or even Jordan's place in the history of science.The only substantial discussion of ichthyology in this is text is in fact directly parroted from an different work Naming Nature, by Carol Kaesuk Yoon. I have read that work, this one contains hardly any original material on the subject and frankly rather abuses the fairly complex taxonomic point that 'fish' as referenced in common parlance do not form a monophyletic group using cladistic methods and in doing so completely fails to answer the question possessed by its title (something Yoon's text, for what it's worth, at least tries to do). Instead, it chooses to deploy this particular factoid as a rather complex metaphor.There is much to recommend about this book, as a memoir of a young woman in the United States interlaced with a biography, and the illustrations by Kate Samworth used for the chapter headings are quite lovely (and quite non-creditted on main page, come on Amazon), but if you're looking for a book that's even remotely about fish, look elsewhere. This book tries to do three things, and does one of them well. (1) As a mini-biography of taxonomist David Starr Jordan, it rocks. Among other fascinating findings, who knew that the (exceedingly gritty and persistent) first President of Stanford University may have murdered the wife of Stanford's founder? (2) As an account of fish and science and life, the book is OK, but it is not deep or original. (3) As a memoir, it belly-flops. On p.34 we are told that the author (at age 7) asked her father "What's the meaning of life?" And we are told that he told her, "Nothing!... as special as you might feel, you are no different than an ant. A bit bigger, maybe, but not more significant, except, do I see you aerating the soil? Do I see you feeding on timber to accelerate the process of decomposition?" How's that for realistically describing how a dad speaks to his first-grade daughter? And then at the the end of the book (p.190), after the author has told us about her frequent suicidal ideations and attempts, we are told that her enlightenment came in a flash, when she went swimming with her girlfriend in Bermuda, and the girlfriend removed her bikini shorts and "swam out before me, liberated, frog-kicking just to let me look...through the clarity of a snorkel...to look" (p.190). This, we are told, is when the author knew that she was done. In her own capital letters: "I NEVER WANT A LIFE WITHOUT THIS PERSON." After describing this remarkable event (which I paraphrase as "I saw her genitals underwater and now I feel fine!"), the author informs us that the best way of ensuring that *we* do not miss the gifts of life is "to admit, with every breath" that we have no idea what we are looking at (p.191). Given what was described on the preceeding pages, the conclusion would have more coherence if it recommended that readers go to Bermuda and find some genitals to look at through a snorkel. Read Online Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Download Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life PDF Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Mobi Free Reading Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Download Free Pdf Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life PDF Online Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Mobi Online Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Reading Online Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life Read Online Lulu Miller Download Lulu Miller Lulu Miller PDF Lulu Miller Mobi Free Reading Lulu Miller Download Free Pdf Lulu Miller PDF Online Lulu Miller Mobi Online Lulu Miller Reading Online Lulu MillerRead Beach Music: A Novel By Pat Conroy
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