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The Orchid Thief
by Orlean, Susan
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ Issued
- ISBN 10
- 044900371X
- ISBN 13
- 9780449003718
- Seller
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Deland, Florida, United States
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About This Item
Ballantine Books, 2000. First edition. stated first edition. Trade paperback. Very Good/No DJ Issued. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. a solid very good, cover and pgs. are clean and bright. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 320 p. Audience: General/trade. Laroche and three Seminole Indians were arrested with rare orchids they had stolen from a wild swamp in south Florida that is filled with some of the world's most extraordinary plants and trees. Laroche had planned to clone the orchids and then sell them for a small fortune to impassioned collectors. After he was caught in the act, Laroche set off one of the oddest legal controversies in recent memory, which brought together environmentalists, Native Amer-ican activists, and devoted orchid collectors. The result is a tale that is strange, compelling, and hilarious.
Synopsis
The Orchid Thief is a non-fiction book by American journalist and author Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The book is based on an earlier article that Orlean wrote for The New Yorker magazine. Laroche, a plant dealer, was determined to find and clone the rare Ghost Orchid for profit.
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- Bookseller
- Books-onice
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0001280
- Title
- The Orchid Thief
- Author
- Orlean, Susan
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Issued
- Edition
- First edition. stated first edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 044900371X
- ISBN 13
- 9780449003718
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- LCCN
- 99-90911
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