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RECORD NUMBER: 23 OF 23Main Title | The signature of all things / | ||||||||||||||||
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Author | Gilbert, Elizabeth, | ||||||||||||||||
Publisher | Viking, | ||||||||||||||||
Year Published | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||
OCLC Number | 829451549 | ||||||||||||||||
ISBN | 9780670024858; 0670024856; 0143125842; 9780143125846; 0670015857; 9780670015856; 9781408850114; 1408850117; 9781408841907; 1408841908; 9781408841891; 1408841894; 9781408853917; 1408853914 | ||||||||||||||||
Subjects | Women botanists--Fiction ; Painters--Fiction ; Enlightenment--Fiction ; Industrial revolution--Fiction ; Artists--Fiction ; Abolitionists--Fiction ; Fate and fatalism--Fiction ; Poverty--Fiction ; Poor--Fiction ; Entrepreneurship--Fiction ; Family life--Fiction ; FICTION--Literary ; FICTION--Historical ; Biographischer Roman ; Amerikanisches Englisch ; Historischer Roman ; Botanikerin ; Biografischer Roman ; Historical fiction ; Love stories | ||||||||||||||||
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Collation | 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | ||||||||||||||||
Contents Notes | "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"-- The tree of fevers -- The plum of White Acre -- The disturbance of messages -- The consequence of missions -- The curator of mosses. |