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The Orchid Thief
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Release Date : 2011-07-20
The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Ballantine Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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. Determined to clone an endangered flower—the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii—a deeply eccentric and oddly attractive man named John Laroche leads Orlean on an unforgettable tour of America’s strange flower-selling subculture, through Florida’s swamps and beyond, along with the Seminoles who help him and the forces of justice who fight him. In the end, Orlean—and the reader—will have more respect for underdog determination and a powerful new definition of passion. In this new edition, coming fifteen years after its initial publication and twenty years after she first met the “orchid thief,” Orlean revisits this unforgettable world, and the route by which it was brought to the screen in the film Adaptation, in a new retrospective essay. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for The Orchid Thief “Stylishly written, whimsical yet sophisticated, quirkily detailed and full of empathy . . . The Orchid Thief shows [Orlean’s] gifts in full bloom.”—The New York Times Book Review “Fascinating . . . an engrossing journey [full] of theft, hatred, greed, jealousy, madness, and backstabbing.”—Los Angeles Times “Orlean’s snapshot-vivid, pitch-perfect prose . . . is fast becoming one of our national treasures.”—The Washington Post Book World “Orlean’s gifts [are] her ear for the self-skewing dialogue, her eye for the incongruous, convincing detail, and her Didion-like deftness in description.”—Boston Sunday Globe “A swashbuckling piece of reporting that celebrates some virtues that made America great.”—The Wall Street Journal
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2009-07-15
The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-15 with Gardening categories.
Susan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this magical exploration of obsession and the strange world both of the orchid obsessives and of Florida, that haunting and weird 'debatable land' of swamps and condos, retirement communities and real-estate scams. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to a fascinating exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector, and the haunting beauty of the flowers themselves.
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2000
The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nursery growers categories.
The story of orchid thief and obsessive, John Laroche, and the bizarre world of the orchid fanciers of Florida. The world of the orchid hunters, breeders and showmen, their rivalries, vendettas and crimes, smuggling, thefts and worse provide the backdrop to an exploration of one of the byways of human nature, the obsessive world of the collector.
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Carolyn Keene
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-05-22
The Orchid Thief written by Carolyn Keene and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
This New York Times bestselling girl detective has one hot summer ahead! Nancy, Bess, and George are off to Key Largo, Florida for a week of sun, swimming and exploring the fabulous coral reef that stretches along the Florida keys. They've been invited by Delia Duke, a friend of theirs and also a marine biologist at the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, which covers a 175 sq. miles of reef and shoreline along the coast of Kay Largo. The park is a scuba diver's delight, with dazzling corals and tropical fish, and Delia promises to show the girls the best snorkling and diving spots. But as they head through the mangroves toward her boat, someone takes off in a small motor boat, leaving behind a bag filled with rare, endangered butterfly orchids. This is just the beginning of a shocking eco-mystery that'd be too complex for anyone but Nancy Drew. . .
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Carolyn Keene
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2006-08
The Orchid Thief written by Carolyn Keene and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08 with Children's stories categories.
Saturday Night
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-08-16
Saturday Night written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-16 with History categories.
The author embarks on a journey across the country to find out what Saturday night means to different people in American culture.
The Bullfighter Checks Her Make Up
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-08-31
The Bullfighter Checks Her Make Up written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy, New York's most successful children's clown, an African king who is a New York taxi-driver, and a champion show dog called Biff, who from a certain angle looks like President Clinton. As in her remarkable bestseller The Orchid Thief, soon to be the basis of Spike Being John Malkovich Jonze's new film, starring Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage, Orlean's eye for the fascinatingly bizarre and her wonderfully witty way with language make her take on the world utterly original and unique.
The Scent Of Scandal
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Author : Craig Pittman
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2012-03-18
The Scent Of Scandal written by Craig Pittman and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-18 with True Crime categories.
After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.
The Orchid Thief
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Arrow
Release Date : 1998-11
The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Arrow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11 with categories.
My Kind Of Place
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Author : Susan Orlean
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2004-09-28
My Kind Of Place written by Susan Orlean and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-09-28 with Travel categories.
New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.