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02708aim a2200397La 4500 001 D37AA74E5CB111E39E4701B2DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20230120011731 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 130610s2013 orunnnne f n eng d 020 $a 1482927756 020 $a 9781482927757 028 02 $a Z7903 $b Blackstone Audio 040 $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 14 $a PS3557.I3415 $b S54 2013d 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Gilbert, Elizabeth, $d 1969- 245 14 $a The signature of all things $h [sound recording] / $c Elizabeth Gilbert. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a [Ashland, OR] : $b Blackstone Audio, Inc., $c p2013. 300 $a 18 audio discs (approximately 21 hours, 30 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 511 0 $a Read by Juliet Stevenson. 520 $a 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. he 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 Age of 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. 650 0 $a Women botanists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Painters $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Enlightenment $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Industrial revolution $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd. 700 1 $a Stevenson, Juliet. $4 nrt. 941 $a 3 945 $a cdab 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409021211.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720042712.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418100659.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D37AA74E5CB111E39E4701B2DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search