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Leif Bersweden

Leif Bersweden is a writer, botanist and science communicator with a face-down, bottom-up approach to watching nature. He grew up in rural Wiltshire where he taught himself to identify the local wildlife, focusing on plants from a young age, and has more recently completed a genetics PhD at Kew Gardens. He is the author of THE ORCHID HUNTER and WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW, the latter of which was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize and shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies Award.
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