Lab Girl

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 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.

• 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!!!!