The signature of all things : a novel / Elizabeth Gilbert.
"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 Phi...
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| Physical Description: | 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue -- Part One. The tree of fevers -- Part Two. The plum of White Acre -- Part Three. The disturbance of massages -- Part Four. The consequence of missions -- Part Five. The curator of mosses. | |
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