Andrea Wulf Books in Order

Seven English gardens provide a way to trace the country’s changing ideas, tastes, and ambitions. From grand aristocratic designs to cottage gardens, this cultural history connects landscape making with developments in science, technology, religion, literature, and society.

A transatlantic network of eighteenth-century botanists, merchants, and explorers transforms British gardening. Following their exchanges of plants and ideas, Andrea Wulf explores the friendships, rivalries, and imperial connections behind a growing national fascination with collecting and cultivating nature.

The lives of Washington, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison are reconsidered through their interests in farming, plants, and gardens. Andrea Wulf traces how these pursuits informed their private lives, political thinking, and visions for the new American nation.

Eighteenth-century astronomers travel across the globe to observe Venus crossing the sun and calculate the scale of the solar system. Rivalries, war, difficult journeys, and unreliable weather challenge an ambitious effort that depends on international cooperation.

This illustrated account follows Alexander von Humboldt’s five-year South American expedition through diaries, observations, and discoveries. It traces how his travels shaped an understanding of nature as an interconnected whole and helped transform scientific thinking.

Naturalist George Forster’s life leads from childhood expeditions and Cook’s Pacific voyage to revolutionary Paris. Andrea Wulf follows the experiences that shaped his advocacy for human rights, opposition to empire, and belief in a shared humanity.

Andrea Wulf follows the poets, philosophers, and writers gathered in Jena who helped launch Romanticism. Her group biography connects radical ideas about nature, creativity, and individual freedom with the friendships, love affairs, and quarrels through which those ideas developed.