Becoming a botanist in her own right, she is plunged deeper and deeper into the mysteries of life itself. But she is also alert to the world and the limitations that she as a woman will face in it. Alma Whittaker, born in January of 1800, is a clever girl - curious, big-boned, sturdy - and fascinated by her father’s thriving business of botanical imports.
These are the questions that consume our heroine, who struggles between the rigors of scientific inquiry and gossamer notions of love. What life does, we know well.” Which is to say that Gilbert’s novel will deal with the wonderfully baggy preoccupations of the Victorian age: faith, doubt and the biggest, most baffling puzzle of all: What is life? Why are we here? And why is it that the more we decode nature, the less we know how nature began? The book’s epigraph alone indicates we are on different ground: “What life is, we know not. Trivia-on-Books is a quiz-formatted trivia on the book for readers, students, and fans alike.From the very first page of Elizabeth Gilbert’s mammoth new novel, we know we are no longer in the realm of “ Eat, Pray, Love” - no longer vaulting from woe to wisdom via food, sex and an exotic itinerary. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may have read the book, but not have liked it. Gilbert's extensive research on plant life and believable narrations about various cultures around the world add to the book's finesse. It has touching and exciting moments and compels us to believe that knowledge is the most valuable commodity.
The Signature of All Things is an engrossing tale about the talented botanist Alma Whittaker and takes readers along for a ride into the realm of nature. However, when Darwin published his Origin of Species, she knew she was right all along. Trivia-on-Book: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertĪlma never published her manuscript of A Theory of Competitive Alterations, being unsure how selfless acts of people fit into it.
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