Lab Girl: A Memoir

by Hope Jahren

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101873728
• ISBN13: 9781101873724
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A Wonderful Read

I would strongly recommend this book to anyone. Her enthusiasm for botany definitely rubbed off on me, and I loved the way that she explained the science concepts. Hope Jahren's story inspiring, and her prose is truly beautiful.

Don't miss this book! An absolute GEM!

This memoir of a delightful botanist who is so brilliant, so enthusiastic, so inspiring and in addition so incredibly hilarious...I cannot think of a single book I have read in a lifetime ( 68 years) that has so touched my heart and ultimately my soul... I absolutely could not put it down..then never wanted it to end...Very special woman...truly once in a lifetime does such a writer come along...I want to read everything she ever writes!!!!