![]() 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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