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001			871192219
003			OCoLC
005			20251204075544.0
008			140227t20142013nyua 000 1 eng d
010			_z2013017045
020			_a9780143125846 (pbk.)
020			_a0143125842 (pbk.)
040			_aYDXCP _beng _cYDXCP _dBDX _dEYW _dOCLCO _dNOG _dOCLCO _dOXF _dTnLvILS _erda
043			_an-us---
100	1		_aGilbert, Elizabeth, _d1969-
245	1	0	_aSignature of all things : _ba novel / _cElizabeth Gilbert.
264		1	_aNew York, New York : _bPenguin Books, _c2014.
264		4	_c℗♭2013.
300			_a501 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier.
500			_aSubtitle from cover.
500			_aOriginal publication and copyright date: 2013.
520			_aIn this book the author returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. 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. The story soars across the globe, from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the 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."--Provided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen botanists _vFiction.
650		0	_aPainters _vFiction.
650		0	_aEnlightenment _vFiction.
650		0	_aIndustrial revolution _vFiction.
650		7	_aFICTION _xLiterary. _2bisacsh.
650		7	_aFICTION _xHistorical. _2bisacsh.
650		7	_aEnlightenment. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00912527.
650		7	_aIndustrial revolution. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00971658.
650		7	_aPainters. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01050530.
650		7	_aWomen botanists. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01177368.
655		7	_aFiction. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01423787.
655		0	_aHistorical fiction.
942			_cBK
999			_c31267 _d31265