The orchid thief
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New York : Ballantine, 2000.
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Book
Edition
First Ballantine edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 284 pages, 13 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm.
Status
Bent Northrop Memorial Library - Adult Non-Fiction
635.93 ORL
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Published
New York : Ballantine, 2000.
Edition
First Ballantine edition.
Language
English

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-284) and a reader's companion including an interview with the author and topics for reading group discussion.
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The Orchid Thief is Susan Orlean’s 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.,-- GoodReads

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Orlean, S. (2000). The orchid thief (First Ballantine edition.). Ballantine.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Orlean, Susan. 2000. The Orchid Thief. Ballantine.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Orlean, Susan. The Orchid Thief Ballantine, 2000.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Orlean, Susan. The Orchid Thief First Ballantine edition., Ballantine, 2000.

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