NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NATIONAL
BESTSELLER - Geobiologist Hope Jahren has spent her life studying
trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Lab Girl is her revelatory treatise
on plant life--but it is also a celebration of the lifelong curiosity,
humility, and passion that drive every scientist.
"Does for botany what Oliver Sacks's essays did for neurology, what
Stephen Jay Gould's writings did for paleontology." --The New York
Times
In these pages, Hope takes us back to her Minnesota childhood, where she
spent hours in unfettered play in her father's college laboratory. She
tells us how she found a sanctuary in science, learning to perform lab
work "with both the heart and the hands." She introduces us to Bill, her
brilliant, eccentric lab manager. And she extends the mantle of
scientist to each one of her readers, inviting us to join her in
observing and protecting our environment.
Warm, luminous, compulsively readable, Lab Girl vividly demonstrates
the mountains that we can move when love and work come together.