The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)

Name: The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
Brand: Random House Publishing Group
SKU: 9780449003718-G
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By Susan Orlean

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • THE BASIS FOR THE FILM ADAPTATION DIRECTED BY SPIKE JONZE AND STARRING NICOLAS CAGE AND MERYL STREEP The “eccentric, illuminating, [and] hilarious” (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 orchid “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times Meet John Laroche, a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive renegade plant dealer. In 1994, Laroche and three Seminole men were arrested with rare ghost orchids—Polyrrhiza lindenii—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 Florida’s orchid collectors, a subculture of aristocrats, fanatics, and smugglers whose obsession with plants is all-consuming. This unforgettable tour of America’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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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 320
Release Date:: 2000-01-04
Publication Date:: 2000-01-04
Publisher:: Random House Publishing Group
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 044900371X
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 1050 g
Height:: 21 cm
Width:: 13.9 cm
Thickness:: 2 cm

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