The Signature of All Things av Elizabeth Gilbert

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<b>_______________</b><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE</b><b>LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN''S PRIZE FOR FICTION</b><b>_______________</b><b>''Quite simply one of the best novels I have read in years'' </b>- Elizabeth Day, <i>Observer</i><b>''Charming ... extensively researched, compellingly readable'' </b>- Jane Shilling, <i>Daily Telegraph</i><b>''Sumptuous ... Gilbert''s prose is by turns flinty, funny, and incandescent'' </b><i>- New Yorker</i><b>_______________</b><b>A captivating story of botany, exploration and desire, by the multimillion copy bestselling author of </b><i>Eat Pray Love</i>Everything about life intrigues Alma Whittaker. Her passion for botany leads her far from home, from London to Peru to Tahiti, in pursuit of that rare specimen: knowledge. But as her careful studies draw her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, she meets the man who she will come to love ¿ whose perspective, radically different from her own, will transform the way she understands