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The Orchid Thief
Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780449003718 Author(s): Susan Orlean Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2000 Publisher: Random House USA Inc Pages: 320
Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A?Â? A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK A?Â? THE BASIS FOR THE FILM ADAPTATION DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE AND STARRING NICOLAS CAGE AND MERYL STREEPThe A?eccentric, illuminating, [and] hilariousA? (New York Daily News) true story of beauty and obsession in the swamps of Florida and the impassioned individuals who risk everything for the ultimate prize: a rare ghost orchidA?Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.A?A?Los Angeles TimesMeet John Laroche, a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive renegade plant dealer. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole men were arrested with rare ghost orchidsA?Polyrrhiza lindeniiA?they had stolen from a wild swamp in South Florida. Laroche had planned to clone the endangered orchids and sell them for a small fortune to impassioned buyers.In The Orchid Thief, acclaimed journalist Susan Orlean follows Laroche through swamps and into the eccentric world of FloridaA?s orchid collectors, a subculture of aristocrats, fanatics, and smugglers whose obsession with plants is all-consuming. This unforgettable tour of AmericaA?s strange flower-selling subculture becomes even more bizarre as Orlean details how the head of a famous Seminole chief came to be displayed in the front window of a local pharmacy, how seven hundred iguanas were smuggled into Florida, and the case of the only known extraterrestrial plant crime. A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is a wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession.
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