e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Subjects
Women botanists -- Fiction.
Painters -- Fiction.
Enlightenment -- Fiction.
Artists' spouses -- Fiction.
Industrial revolution -- Fiction.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
by title:
The signature of all...
by call number:
FICTION GIL
Search the Web
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Women botanists -- Fiction.
Painters -- Fiction.
Enlightenment -- Fiction.
Artists' spouses -- Fiction.
Industrial revolution -- Fiction.
MARC Display
The signature of all things / Elizabeth Gilbert.
by
Gilbert, Elizabeth, 1969-
Penguin Group, c2013.
Call #:
FICTION GIL
Subjects
Women botanists -- Fiction.
Painters -- Fiction.
Enlightenment -- Fiction.
Artists' spouses -- Fiction.
Industrial revolution -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780143125846 (2014 trade pbk.)
9780670024858
0670024856
Description:
501 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Viking."
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. Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, "The Signature of All Things" 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. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers."--Publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Family saga.
Epic fiction.
Holds:
4
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Central Library
Adult Fiction
FICTION GIL
Adult books
Item being held
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.