Gilbert Elizabeth The Signature of All Things 9781408841907

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Автор: Gilbert Elizabeth (Гилберт Элизабет)
Название: The Signature of All Things
Перевод названия: Э.Гилберт: Характерная черта всех вещей
ISBN: 9781408841907
Издательство: Bloomsbury
Классификация:

Модернистская и современная художественная литература

ISBN-10: 1408841908
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 512
Вес: 0.77 кг.
Дата издания: 01.10.2013
Язык: English
Размер: 152 x 236 x 39
Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 Bankss Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cooks HMS Resolution. Almas mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, has a knowledge of botany equal to any mans. 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 - into the realm of the spiritual, the divine and the magical. She is a clear-minded scientist; he is a Utopian artist. But what unites this couple is a shared passion for knowing - a desperate desire to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all of life. 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.

The Signature of All Things, Gilbert Elizabeth