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About Carolyn Fry

Carolyn Fry is a journalist and author specialising in science environment and botanical exploration. She has written/co-authored 11 books including Seeds: Safeguarding our Future (winner of the 2016 Garden Media Guild Environmental Award); Plants: from Roots to Riches (tie-in to the 24-part Radio 4 series of the same name); and The Plant Hunters: The Adventures of the Worlds Greatest Botanical Explorers. A former Editor of Geographical magazine of the Royal Geographical Society Carolyn has contributed news stories and articles to multiple magazines and national newspapers. Her work has taken her to many far-flung places including Oman to track humpback whales from a traditional sailing dhow; Zambia to follow in explorer David Livingstones footsteps; Antarctica to visit the worlds most remote post office; and Argentina to dig for dinosaurs. Carolyn lives on the south coast of the UK.Emma Wayland is a journalist writer and editor. Her postgraduate research at Imperial College London and in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science Cambridge concerned how Victorian gardeners made use of new scientific ideas. She was the Independent on Sundays gardening columnist for ten years and for the last 15 years she has been part of the team of tour guides at Kew interpreting the gardens for visitors. She wrote Darwins Dogs (2009) and has been a co-author of two Kew titles Plants: from Roots to Riches (2015) and Plant Words (2022).