![]() He sails around the world learning about culture and business, and eventually strikes out on his own with a Dutch wife and a botanical/pharmaceutical business in Philadelphia.Īlma is Henry’s only biological child. Henry’s a bit of a charlatan who steals from Kew’s famous director and gets sent on a voyage with Captain Cook rather than to prison. ![]() Alma’s father Henry was the son of the head gardener at Kew. The first part of the book actually explains her father’s life so that you understand where he comes from and where she comes from, and it’s worth noting that this book meanders Gilbert takes her time as she explains the characters and lets them unfold. The Signature of All Things is about Alma Whitaker, an extraordinary woman with an uncommon upbringing and rare education. But a novel about a female naturalist in the nineteenth century stumbling on ideas similar to Darwin’s? Sign me up! I loved The Signature of All Things – it’s an excellent reminder of why I like to read non-genre fiction now and then. I had no interest in Eat, Pray, Love in either book or movie form it just sounded self-indulgent to me. ![]()
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