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  • ISBN13: 9780449003718
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK

A modern classic of personal journalism, The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s wickedly funny, elegant, and captivating tale of an amazing obsession.

From Florida’s swamps to its courtrooms, the New Yorker writer follows one deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man’s possibly criminal pursuit of an endangered flower. Determined to clone the rare ghost orchid, Polyrrhiza lindenii, John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforg… More >>

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession