The signature of all things /
Elizabeth Gilbert.
- 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
""Spanning much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the novel follows the fortunes of the extraordinary Whittaker family as led by the enterprising Henry Whittaker--a poor-born Englishman who makes a great fortune in the South American quinine trade, eventually becoming the richest man in Philadelphia"". --
9781408853917
2013017045
Enlightenment--Fiction. Industrial revolution--Fiction. Painters--Fiction. Women botanists--Fiction.