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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-     Subjects     Women botanists -- Fiction.     Painters -- Fiction.     Enlightenment -- Fiction.     Industrial revolution -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-       by title:      The signature of all...         MARC Display

The signature of all things : a novel / Elizabeth Gilbert. by Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969- New York : Viking, c2013. Subjects Women botanists -- Fiction.   Painters -- Fiction.   Enlightenment -- Fiction.   Industrial revolution -- Fiction. Electronic Resource ftp://ppftpuser:welcome@ftp01.penguingroup.com/Booksellers and Media/Covers/2008_2009_New_Covers/9780670024858.jpg ISBN:  9780670024858 (hardback) : Description:  501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. As Alma's research takes her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she falls in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who draws her in the exact opposite direction--into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian artist--but what unites this unlikely couple is a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all life. he story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who--born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution--bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Aiea Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Aina Haina Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Ewa Beach P/S Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hana P/S Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Lost 08/06/2018 Add Copy to MyList Hanapepe Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hawaii State Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Gilbert Lost 06/14/2016 Add Copy to MyList More Results: 1 2 3 4 Next

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