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The Nature of All Things is a bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of the world-famous novels Eat, Pray, Love and City of Girls.

This is an amazing story about growing up and finding yourself, the thirst for knowledge, sexuality, freedom and courage.

Alma Whittaker, a woman with a sharp inquisitive mind and unquenchable curiosity about the world around her, was destined to live in an era of scientific expeditions and revolutionary educational ideas, when scientists were adventurers and romantics. Alma's story is a passionate and fascinating journey of the human mind, an attempt to explain the essence of everything in the world and explore it despite her tireless desires and broken heart. Will she succeed in becoming a recognised botanist alongside famous male scientists? After all, Alma Whittaker had every chance to outshine the creator of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin. Where will her thirst for the new lead her? And will Alma be able to come even a step closer to the true knowledge of the nature of all things?