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#12booksof2022

Another non-fiction read from #ReadingAfrica

I really enjoy books about exploring and researching the ocean so this book was perfect for me.

I had never heard of the coelacanth but it‘s a fascinating story, a deep dive in prehistoric times. This book is the non fiction account about Smith and his quest to find them in the #Comores.

#ReadingAfrica2022

What a cool book that I would have never run across if it weren‘t for #ReadingAfrica

I thoroughly enjoyed this short non-fiction account of the study of the coelacanth.

(And this was actually fun to read after the #CampLitsy selection Our Wives Under The Sea.)

My next book for#ReadingAfrica2022 . Looking forward to this one! #Comoros

An unusual fish known from the fossil record and believed to go extinct 70+ million years ago was found by an amateur icthyologist in a 1930s fish market, leading to an all-out manhunt for a live coelacanth. This is the story of the fish‘s heroes and a little about its villains (those who “discovered” its mythical medical properties leading to attempts to poach it like ivory). An excellent history if a bit dated. #comoros #readingafrica2022

I never thought that I will like book about fish … but I did. Till 1938 scientists were convinced that Coelacanths were extinct. Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was curator in the small museum, always in the hunt for unusual species, and as soon as she saw to her unknown fish, she contacted the ichthyologist JLB Smith… and the treasure hunt has begun. Surprisingly readable, even a tense story about the fish that is supposed to be a missed link 👇

Status of the #readingafrica2022 challenge. I‘m trying to finish the following for #20in4readathon:

1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros

Since I‘m down for the count with my right arm almost immobile until at least next Tuesday, the timing of this readathon is impeccable. Plan: finish all 3 books I‘m reading now for #readingafrica2022:

1) When the Ground is Hard (audio), #Swaziland #Eritrea
2) Dark Inheritance (ebook), #EquatorialGuinea
3) A Fish Caught in Time (IRL), #Comoros

I may try to start my next book for #foodandlit #Colombia, The Fruit of the Drunken Tree

@Andrew65

“Homo sapiens first walked on earth only a hundred thousand years ago; the fish before me, suspended in murky formalin, pre-dated modern man by 399.9 million years.“

#Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I love getting such a nice descriptive vision of the islands I‘m soon to read about. #Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

#Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I have plans to start the tagged book tomorrow. #Comoros #ReadingAfrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I “needed” to buy something from Amazon today to get my order to be enough for same day delivery—so I decided the tagged book would be that something. Received tonight. #Comoros #readingafrica2022 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I have only two short books and two audiobooks in this #weeklyforecast because my week is going to be, mostly, filled with long-working-hours …
Happy reading week♥️

I‘m playing catch-up with reading challenges … so, here is my March book for #ReadAroundTheWorld and #ReadingAfrica
#weekendreading

The coelacanth is present in the fossil record for millions of years, until it‘s abrupt disappearance 70 million years ago, leading science to conclude it went extinct. But then, in 1939, a museum curator found a modern specimen in a fisherman‘s net. This science detective story is fascinating! I was completely glued to it.

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Sometimes my undergrad degree in Zoology is a little more apparent. This is one of those times, because I found this little book on the search for, discovery of, and science about the coelacanth very interesting. It‘s a bit older (copyright 2000), so there‘s more that we know about the coelacanth now, but it‘s still a good history with some nice humor (and, since the author is British, a few digs at the French!).

Spider expert. Hobbit. Hopefully he never ran into Shelob...

The story of the coelacanth fish. I didn‘t know what this was but was completely hooked by the story (ha ha). Thought to be extinct, fossils date back 400m years. It may be humans‘ ancestor. One was found in the Comoros islands in 1938, to huge excitement & a quest ever since. Loved the stories of the people involved, especially the amazing Marjorie Courtney-Latimer who saw its significance in 1938. Simon Winchester fans will enjoy. #passportlitsy

Very straight forward, this book described the pivotal events in the discovery of the Coelacanth, a 400 million year old fish species. It gives background on the people involved and context for why people should be excited about this "fossil fish." ?
#nonfiction2018

Nothing like starting the week out with a new library card.