In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed/5(K). The Signature of all Things is a work of adult historical fiction by Elizabeth Gilbert. Published by Riverhead Books in , it tells the story of a young female botanist struggling to come into her own, and how her studies lead her deeper and deeper into the mysteries of evolution. From the dust jacket: "In THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, infusing her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of desire, adventure and the thirst for knowledge. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this sweeping novel follows the fortunes of the Whittakers -- a family of botanical explorers.
Elizabeth Gilbert is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, and The Signature of All Things, as well as several other internationally bestselling books of fiction and www.doorway.ru has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the PEN/Hemingway Award. Her latest novel, City of Girls, comes out in June, In , Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat, Pray, Love inspired women around the world to take their own journeys of self-discovery. Now, Elizabeth returns to f. The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert. This magnificent novel by the author of 'Eat, Pray, Love' traces a scientist's long life from the Enlightenment to the dawn of the modern world.
From the dust jacket: "In THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, infusing her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of desire, adventure and the thirst for knowledge. Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this sweeping novel follows the fortunes of the Whittakers -- a family of botanical explorers. The Signature of all Things is a work of adult historical fiction by Elizabeth Gilbert. Published by Riverhead Books in , it tells the story of a young female botanist struggling to come into her own, and how her studies lead her deeper and deeper into the mysteries of evolution. In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert 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.
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