What she’s not taught is how to deal with people except from an intellectual perspective, what the purpose of emotions or desire might be, or what’s that thing called love. Speaking five languages by a ridiculously young age, she’s brought up to help entertain the stream of dinner guests with intelligent, provocative questions, and to develop a rigorously inquiring mind. His daughter, Alma, born in 1800, is herself a hothouse flower. Men from all over the world flock to his estate, White Acres, to share species or scientific information, or offer investment opportunities.
Henry Whittaker lives an eighteenth-century rags-to-riches story, rising from a gardener’s assistant at London’s Kew Botanical Gardens to become the wealthiest man in Philadelphia, trading in quinine and other tropical or unusual plants.
Review: The Signature of All Things, by Elizabeth Gilbert
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