New York: Viking, (2013) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel which "spans much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as it 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 .. .and his brilliant daughter, Alma, born in 1800 who becomes a botanist of considerable gifts. . Born in the Age of Enlightenment, but living well into the Industrial Revolution her life 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." SIGNED on a blank preliminary bound. Illustrated with black and white botanical drawings and full color endpapers of vintage botanical prints, 499 pp. ISBN: 978-0670024858.