Andrea Wulf, author of The Brother Gardeners. Botany, Empire and the Birth of an Obsession'
The tale of how a group of passionate plant collectors, botanists and explorers turned Britain into a nation of gardeners. The cast includes Peter Collinson, who brought the American wilderness to British parks; botanists Carl Linnaeus and Daniel Solander; and Sir Joseph Banks, who turned Kew into a storehouse of Empire.
www.andreawulf.com