loppear reviewed Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural …
Chaotic search for what matters
5 stars
So much more than an investigation into the problematic ethics of an adventuring biologist/taxonomist at the turn of the 20th century, or a quirky brief memoir of young adulthood, she takes on the big questions of chaos and meaning and lands somewhere beautiful.