《万物的签名》横跨十八、十九世纪，叙述了爱、冒险与探索等动人主题，为我们见证人类历史上充满变动、最为不凡的启蒙年代。吉尔伯特搜集了大量资料，并以紧凑的步调呈现出这部格局浩大的小说。
故事背景地遍及英国伦敦、秘鲁、美国费城、塔希提、荷兰阿姆斯特丹等地，书中充满各式鲜明、极具个人特色且呈现时代氛围的角色，时间与空间的跨度，闪烁着科学和智慧的烁烁光辉，又饱含对亲情、爱情的孜孜探索。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2201.html
A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2201.html
In The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction, inserting her inimitable voice into an enthralling story of love, adventure and discovery. 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. Born in 1800, Henry's brilliant daughter, Alma (who inherits both her father's money and his mind), ultimately becomes a botanist of considerable gifts herself. 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.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2201.html
Exquisitely researched and told at a galloping pace, The Signature of All Things soars across the globe—from London to Peru to Philadelphia to Tahiti to Amsterdam, and beyond. Along the way, the story is peopled with unforgettable characters: missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses, and the quite mad. But most memorable of all, it is the story of Alma Whittaker, who — born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution — bears witness to that extraordinary moment in human history when all the old assumptions about science, religion, commerce, and class were exploding into dangerous new ideas. Written in the bold, questing spirit of that singular time, Gilbert's wise, deep, and spellbinding tale is certain to capture the hearts and minds of readers.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2201.html
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