Time of action: Late 18th — late 19th centuries.
Location: London and Peru, Philadelphia and Tahiti, Amsterdam and the most remote corners of the earth.
A wise, deep and exciting romance about time,
— when botany was a science that required self-sacrifice and passion, courage and willingness to risk life,
— when the scientist was an adventurer and discoverer, businessman and romantic,
— when people loved no less passionately than now, but restraint was considered good form.
The Origin of All Things is a great novel about a great century.
The name of the novel was not chosen by chance — it is a line from the works of the German mystic of the 16th-17th centuries. Jacob Boehme. Its meaning is that the thing itself hides its name, which only needs to be deciphered.
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- Зарубежные приключения
- Историческая литература
- Исторические приключения
- Каталог Аудиокниг
- Современная зарубежная литература