The signature of all things
(Large Print)
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage learning, 2013.
Format
Large Print
Edition
Large print edition.
Status
Port Angeles - Large Print Fiction
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Published
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage learning, 2013.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
883 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Henry Whittaker is 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 daughter, Alma, inherits both his money and his brilliant mind, ultimately becoming a botanist of considerable gifts. 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.