The
signature of all things
Gilbert, Elizabeth
1969-
creator
text
Historical fiction.
nyu
2013
monographic
eng
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"". --
Elizabeth Gilbert.
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Enlightenment
Fiction
Industrial revolution
Fiction
Painters
Fiction
Women botanists
Fiction
9781408853917
2013017045
130522
20181127175710.0
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