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The Orchid Thief

by Susan Orlean

  • FINISHED
  • Finished July 2017
  • First published 1998

nature writing plants

Orlean follows John Laroche, a Florida plant dealer arrested for taking rare orchids from a state preserve.   The book looks at orchid collecting and the people who are obsessed with it.

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