The Resource The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
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The item The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- 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 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. 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 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (21hr., 44 min.))
- Isbn
- 9781982422080
- Label
- The signature of all things
- Title
- The signature of all things
- Statement of responsibility
- Elizabeth Gilbert
- Subject
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- Abolitionists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Downloadable audiobooks
- Enlightenment -- Fiction
- Entrepreneurship -- Fiction
- Epic fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Industrial revolution -- Fiction
- Painters -- Fiction
- Poor -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Women botanists -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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. 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 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
- Accompanying matter
- technical information on music
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/collectionName
- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1969-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Gilbert, Elizabeth
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Form of composition
- not applicable
- Format of music
- not applicable
- Literary text for sound recordings
- fiction
- PerformerNote
- Read by Juliet Stevenson
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Stevenson, Juliet
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Women botanists
- Painters
- Enlightenment
- Industrial revolution
- Artists
- Abolitionists
- Fate and fatalism
- Poverty
- Poor
- Entrepreneurship
- Family life
- Target audience
- adult
- Transposition and arrangement
- not applicable
- Label
- The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
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- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12395422
- Dimensions
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- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (21hr., 44 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781982422080
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- Publisher number
- MWT12395422
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
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- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- 12395422
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
- Label
- The signature of all things, Elizabeth Gilbert
- Link
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Capture and storage technique
- digital storage
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- not applicable
- Configuration of playback channels
- unknown
- Content category
- spoken word
- Content type code
-
- spw
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT12395422
- Dimensions
-
- not applicable
- unknown
- Edition
- Unabridged.
- Extent
- 1 online resource (1 audio file (21hr., 44 min.))
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Groove width / pitch
- not applicable
- Isbn
- 9781982422080
- Isbn Type
- (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book)
- Kind of cutting
- not applicable
- Kind of disc cylinder or tape
- not applicable
- Kind of material
- unknown
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other physical details
- digital.
- Publisher number
- MWT12395422
- Quality assurance targets
- unknown
- Reformatting quality
- access
- Sound
- sound
- Special playback characteristics
- digital recording
- Specific material designation
-
- other
- remote
- Speed
- other
- Stock number
- 12395422
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Tape configuration
- not applicable
- Tape width
- not applicable
Subject
- Abolitionists -- Fiction
- Artists -- Fiction
- Audiobooks
- Downloadable audiobooks
- Enlightenment -- Fiction
- Entrepreneurship -- Fiction
- Epic fiction
- Family life -- Fiction
- Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Industrial revolution -- Fiction
- Painters -- Fiction
- Poor -- Fiction
- Poverty -- Fiction
- Women botanists -- Fiction
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