Description
Book SynopsisAndrea Wulf was born India and moved to Germany as a child. She trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of
This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History. She has written for the
Sunday Times, the
Financial Times,
Mail on Sunday,
The Garden, the
Architects' Journal, and regularly reviews for several newspapers, including the
Guardian and the
Times Literary Supplement. She is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television.
Trade ReviewThis absorbing and delightful book about 18th-century botanists stands out among histories of plant hunting ... Works superbly -- Jenny Uglow * Sunday Telegraph *
Rounded, generous and exhaustively researched ... She is very adept at telling a good story, and in the history and origins of gardening she has found the perfect vehicle ... An excellent, hugely entertaining and instructive tale, and Wulf tells it very well -- Mark Cocker * The Guardian *
Wondrous ... I have learned so much from her book -- Jon Snow, Channel Four News
A delightful book ... Remarkably vivid -- Adrian Tinniswood
Engrossing ... A gripping story, told here with grace and aplomb -- Tim Richardson * Country Life *
