Lab Girl av Hope Jahren

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<p><i>Lab Girl</i> is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren''s remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father''s laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life''s work.<br><br>Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren''s descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enli