(2013, 499 pages) More about The Signature of All Things at Powell's Books or Treat, Elizabeth Knight Britton and Marianne North. Real-life counterparts, look up the nineteenth-century women of botany Mary Us into the world's wonderful, terrible unfathomability. Instead, she lets the incomparable Alma take us by the hand and pull Understanding, into the deep and compelling round holes of life's Gilbert, to her great credit,ĭoes not try to force answers, those square pegs of our clunky, limited human Things takes readers on a roller-coaster ride ofĮmotional, scientific and spiritual exploration. Which she must contemplate the roots of scientific inquiry: the Faustian desire Mosses, humble but enchanting, leads her on an astonishing personal journey in SheĬhannels her passions into serving her father's business empire, absorbing hisĮxtensive library, and cultivating her own botanical genius. Whose exquisite beauty is a constant reminder of her own unattractiveness. At nine, she is presented with an adopted sister World, where their tall, beak-nosed, robustly-built daughter Alma grows up in an atmosphere seesawingīetween her father's exhuberantly ruthless self-interest and her mother's vigilantly The curator of Amsterdam's Hortus Botanicus gardens. Once launched, his choice of wife was the similarly determined daughter of Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and by foul means and fair Henry parlayed this botanical connection to Scruffy young Henry's ambitious path crossed that of the wealthy explorer running the But what a fiction she is!īorn in 1800, Alma is the daughter of Englishman
Speculations about the nineteenth-century scholar's private life. To learn more about her, wondering both why they had never heard of her beforeĪnd how author Elizabeth Gilbert dares to publish such plausible and intimate Passionate intensity, readers may find themselves searching the history of botany Alma Whittaker, the heroine of The Signature of All Things, is drawn with such confident,
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