Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts John Patrick Green Book of the Week

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reading it feels like watching a neck-and-neck horse race

whose reappearance in their lives will have astonishing consequences

Monica Wood illuminates the decisions that define a life and the kindnesses that make life worth living

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts John Patrick Green Book of the WeekAn epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Eartha competition with continued repercussions for Western views of race. [This] vivid double biography is a passionate corrective (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice). [A] vibrant scientific saga . . . at once important, outrageous, enlightening, entertaining, enduring, and still evolving.Dava Sobel, author of Longitude FINALIST FOR