Catalog
The Signature of All Things
by Elizabeth Gilbert
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Alma Whittaker, born into a wealthy nineteenth-century American family, grows into an accomplished botanist whose fascination with mosses leads her across continents and into the great scientific debates of her age. Her intellectual life is expansive, but her emotional and sensual worlds prove far more difficult to understand. Spanning family, science, colonial trade, faith, and desire, this richly researched novel offers a sweeping portrait of a woman determined to think for herself. It is immersive, plot-conscious, and full of natural history, spiritual questioning, and the pleasures of a substantial life story.
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