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The Signature of All Things

The Signature of All Things( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
ISBN:978-1-4088-4189-1
Publication Date:Oct 2013
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $39.99
Book Description:

5 January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, 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...
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Book Details
Pages:512
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Fiction / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.9 x 24.1 x 4.4 cm
Book Weight:0.909 Kilograms
Author Biography
Gilbert, Elizabeth (Author)
Elizabeth Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut on July 18, 1969. She received an undergraduate degree in political science from New York University. After college, she spent several years traveling around the country, working odd jobs and writing short stories. Early in her career, she also worked as a journalist for such publications as Spin, GQ and The New York Times Magazine. An article she wrote in GQ about her experiences bartending on the Lower East Side eventually became the basis for the movie Coyote Ugly.

She writes both fiction and nonfiction and her books include the short story collection Pilgrims, Stern Men, The Last American Man, Committed, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, and The Signature of All Things. Her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, was adapted into a movie starring Julia Roberts. She will be featured at the Sydney Writers Festival in March 2016.

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