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Genre/Form: | Miscellaneous fiction Historical fiction Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Elizabeth Gilbert |
ISBN: | 9780670024858 0670024856 0143125842 9780143125846 0670015857 9780670015856 9781408850114 1408850117 |
OCLC Number: | 829451549 |
Description: | 501 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The tree of fevers -- The plum of White Acre -- The disturbance of messages -- The consequence of missions -- The curator of mosses. |
Responsibility: | Elizabeth Gilbert. |
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Abstract:
"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"--
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