Autobiography of geobiologist Hope Jahren. She has had a lifelong curiosity about, and love for, all things growing from the soil, and for the soil itself. Her father was a scientist, and she grew up playing in his lab as he worked. She went on to get a Ph.D. in geology at the University of California. She is one of four scientists, and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young Investigator Medals given within the Earth Sciences. She has been the recipient of three Fulbright Awards and in 2005, Popular Science named her one of the "Brilliant 10" young scientists in the United States.
This very readable autobiography goes into great details about dirt (and trees), but also about begin a scientist who is also a woman.
306 pages
