The Orchid Thief
by Susan Orlean
Pub. 1998, 282 pages
by Susan Orlean
Pub. 1998, 282 pages
New Yorker writer Susan Orlean followed renegade plant dealer John 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. Along the way, Orlean learned the history of orchid collecting, discovered an odd pattern of plant crimes in Florida, and spent time with John Laroche's partners, a tribe of Seminole Indians who are still at war with the United States.
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