(Read now) The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
☆ Susan Orlean ☆
| #87287 in Books | Ballantine Books | 2000-01-04 | 2000-01-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.30 x.70 x5.50l,.63 | File Name: 044900371X | 320 pages | Great product!
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Yet another window into the European Great White Hunter attitude of ruthless greed - which is ...|By BSteeve|This is an interesting book. It doesn't have a gripping story line, the reader is not on the edge of his/her seat waiting to see what happens, but the history of orchid hunting is engagingly told - and a horrific story it is. The characters don't add a lot, but do prov|.com |Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid s
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A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America&r...
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