Plotlines: whatâs on this week Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Megan Backhouse Save Normal text size Around The World in 80 Trees. Credit:Lucille Clerc Lecture English writer Jonathan Drori tells stories that weave together the botanical and the cultural and in his new book, Around The World in 80 Plants, Drori discusses some of the more quirky aspects of everything from weeds and foods to rare ornamentals. âFor me plant science is fascinating, but enlivened when it is entwined with human history and culture,â he writes in the introduction of the new book. âMost of the stories in this book reveal as much about people as they do about plants.â The book, which follows his 2018