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A glorious, sweeping book of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the number-one New York Times best-selling writer of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed In The Signature of most Things, Elizabeth Gilbert earnings to fiction, placing her inimitable tone into an enthralling story of love, trip, and finding. Spanning much of the 18th and 19th decades, the novel practices the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker - a poor-born Englishman who makes a great lot of money in the South North american quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia. Blessed in 1800, Henry's outstanding princess, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his head), finally becomes a botanist of appreciable gift items herself. As Alma's research needs her deeper in to the mysteries of evolution, she falls deeply in love with a man named Ambrose Pike who makes incomparable paintings of orchids and who attracts her in the exact opposite path - in to the world of the spiritual, the divine, and the sensational. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose a utopian musician - but what unites this improbable few is a needy need to understand the workings of the world and the mechanisms behind all life. Exquisitely explored and informed at a galloping pace, The Signature of most Things soars throughout the world - from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. On the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable individuals: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most remarkable of all, it's the story of Alma Whittaker, who - delivered in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well in to the Industrial Trend - bears witness to that extraordinary moment in history when all the old assumptions about technology, religion, commerce, and school were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of this singular time, Gilbert's sensible, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to fully capture the hearts and brains of listeners.
