The Signature of All Things
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5 January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker
is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry
Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast
fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph
Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS
Resolution. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch
family, has a knowledge of botany equal to any man's. It is not
long before Alma, an independent girl with a thirst for knowledge,
comes into her own within the world of plants and science. But as
her careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of
evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite
direction. The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big
century. It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to
Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. Peopled with extraordinary
characters - missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers,
sea captains, geniuses and the quite mad -above all it has an
unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker, a woman of the Enlightened
Age who stands defiantly on the cusp of the modern.
Výber kníh autorov
Elizabeth Gilbert ,
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Elizabeth Gilbert,
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Slovart
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