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Genre/Form: | Autobiography Autobiographies Biographies Anecdotes Biography |
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Additional Physical Format: | Jahren, Hope. Lab girl. (CaOONL)20159073367 |
Named Person: | Hope Jahren; Hope Jahren; Hope Jahren; Hope Jahren; Hope Jahren; Hope Jahren |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hope Jahren |
ISBN: | 9781101874936 1101874937 9781101873724 1101873728 9780345809865 0345809866 |
OCLC Number: | 910979636 |
Notes: | "A Borzoi Book." |
Awards: | National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography, 2017 |
Description: | 290 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Prologue -- Roots and leaves -- Wood and knots -- Flowers and fruit -- Epilogue. |
Responsibility: | Hope Jahren. |
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Abstract:
Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. She tells about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom's labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and the disappointments, triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.
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