The Signature of All Things  -  Elizabeth Gilbert

KORTE INHOUD

5 January 1800, 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 Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Captain Cook's HMS Resolution. Alma's mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, has a knowledge of botany equal to any man's. It is not long before Alma, an independent girl with a thirst for knowledge, comes into her own within the w...
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2014 Uitgever: Random House Reeks: Bloomsbury Paperbacks 592 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  177x112x40 ISBN-10: 1408850044 ISBN-13: 9781408850046