The Resource The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
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The item The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- 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. 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
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The signature of all things
- Title
- The signature of all things
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Subject
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- trueHistorical fiction
- trueWomen -- Spiritual life
- trueEnlightenment (European intellectual movement)
- trueMen/women relations
- Painters -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- true18th century -- 1701 -- 1800
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
- Industrial revolution -- Fiction
- truePainters
- trueFamily sagas
- trueEpic fiction
- trueWomen botanists
- trueIndustrial revolution
- Enlightenment -- Fiction
- Women botanists -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- 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. 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
- Summary
- The best-selling author of <i>Eat, Pray, Love</i> traces the multi-generational saga of the Whittaker family, whose progenitor makes a fortune in the quinine trade before his daughter, a gifted botanist, researches the mysteries of evolution while falling in love with an utopian artist against a backdrop of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution
- Award
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- New York Times Notable Book, 2013
- Booklist Editors' Choice, 2013.
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- 10217003
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women botanists
- Enlightenment
- Industrial revolution
- Painters
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Control code
- 000051918103
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 501 p.
- Isbn
- 9781408850114
- Label
- The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Control code
- 000051918103
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 501 p.
- Isbn
- 9781408850114
Subject
- true18th century -- 1701 -- 1800
- trueEnlightenment (European intellectual movement)
- Enlightenment -- Fiction
- trueEpic fiction
- trueFamily sagas
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueIndustrial revolution
- Industrial revolution -- Fiction
- trueInterpersonal attraction
- trueMen/women relations
- truePainters
- Painters -- Fiction
- truePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
- trueWomen -- Spiritual life
- trueWomen botanists
- Women botanists -- Fiction
Genre
Included in
- trueBooklist Editors' Choice - Best Fiction Books: 2013
- trueDiscovery and Exploration in Fiction
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2013
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