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Title: Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
Author: Eric Hansen
ISBN: 9780679451419
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A wonderful tour through the outrageous, obsessive, and thoroughly entertaining world of orchid aficionados. From an orchid expedition to Borneo in search of the Paphiopedilum sanderianum, which is thought to be extinct in the wild, to a clandestine Parisian luncheon meeting with a reclusive 19-year-old orchid prodigy who peppered his walls with bullet holes because of a "non-orchid related problem", this travelogue takes us to the remote habitats that grow the rare elusive orchid lover. And we watch as Hansen at first becomes enthralled by the people and places and ultimately as he becomes impassioned by the plants themselves.
Author: Eric Hansen
ISBN: 9780679451419
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 288
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: A wonderful tour through the outrageous, obsessive, and thoroughly entertaining world of orchid aficionados. From an orchid expedition to Borneo in search of the Paphiopedilum sanderianum, which is thought to be extinct in the wild, to a clandestine Parisian luncheon meeting with a reclusive 19-year-old orchid prodigy who peppered his walls with bullet holes because of a "non-orchid related problem", this travelogue takes us to the remote habitats that grow the rare elusive orchid lover. And we watch as Hansen at first becomes enthralled by the people and places and ultimately as he becomes impassioned by the plants themselves.
Along the way we discover that in the world of the orchid obsessed that there is little black and white, except perhaps their derision of the laws enacted to protect endangered orchids. Laws which are exploited by a small clique of the unscrupulous to line their own pockets and greenhouses at the expense of scientists, orchid lovers, and environmentalists. Hansen is that rare and talented writer who can bring this mesmerizingly quirky and captivating collection of colorful plants and even more colorful people to life.
