The Orchid Hunter

Author : Leif Bersweden
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780723350
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter written by Leif Bersweden and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He has just a few months to complete his quest – no one has ever done it before within one growing season – and it will require ingenuity, stamina and a large dose of luck.As he battles the vagaries of the British climate, feverishly chasing each emerging bloom, Leif Bersweden takes the reader on a remarkable botanical journey.This study of the 52 native species is a fantastic gateway into the compendious world of orchids – one that will open your eyes to the rare hidden delights to be found on our doorstep.Like Two Owls at Eton and My Family and Other Animals, The Orchid Hunter is a charming account of a precocious adolescent’s obsession with the natural world.Leif’s enthusiasm for his quest is infectious, as is the quiet conviction with which he keeps at it, showing how plant hunting can be the ultimate mindful activity.

Author : Sandra K. Moore
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 147209283X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter (Mills & Boon Silhouette) written by Sandra K. Moore and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More hunter than botanist, Dr. Jessie Robards had dedicated her life to tracking down the world's rarest flowers.

Author : Susan Orlean
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409078469
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Susan Orlean and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief written by Everest Media, and published by Everest Media LLC. This book was released on 2022-05-30T22:59:00Z with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Laroche is a tall, skinny man with pale eyes and a sharp appearance. He is extremely passionate and driven. He has been working for the Seminole Tribe of Florida since he was twenty-one years old, setting up a plant nursery and an orchid-propagation laboratory on the tribe’s reservation in Hollywood, Florida. #2 Laroche is a very unusual person. He is also the most moral amoral person I’ve ever known. He loves doing things the hard way, especially if it means that he gets to do what he wants to do but also leaves everyone else wondering how he managed to get away with it. #3 I met John Laroche in Florida a few years ago. He was arrested with rare orchids he had stolen out of a swamp called the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. He explained that the plants were going to be cloned and sold to orchid collectors around the world. #4 The trial took place in a courthouse south of Sanibel. Laroche was charged with illegally removing more than two hundred rare orchid and bromeliad plants from the Fakahatchee Swamp. He was also charged with criminal possession of endangered species and of illegally removing plant life from state property, both of which are punishable by jail time and fines.

Author : Jill Marie Landis
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780515127683
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter written by Jill Marie Landis and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2000 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trevor Mandeville, searching the island of Matarenga for the elusive orchid hunter Dustin Penn, is stunned to learn Penn has a daughter, Joya, who is identical to his adopted twin sister Janelle, and even more disturbed to find his feelings for Joya are anything but brotherly.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn Keene
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442465417
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Thief written by Carolyn Keene and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. . .

Author : Albert Millican
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.BT/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Travels and Adventures of an Orchid Hunter written by Albert Millican and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandra K. Moore
Publisher : Silhouette Bombshelll
ISBN 13 : 9780373513499
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunter written by Sandra K. Moore and published by Silhouette Bombshelll. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orchid Hunter by Sandra K. Moore released on Mar 08, 2005 is available now for purchase.

Author : Norman MacDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Orchid Hunters written by Norman MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: