The Orchid Thief [Audiobook] download free by Susan Orlean
- Listen audiobook: The Orchid Thief
- Author: Susan Orlean
- Release date: 2000/8/30
- Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780099289586
- Rating: 8.45 of 10
- Votes: 270
- Review by: Carlena Poulin
- Review rating: 7.62 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/30
- Duration: 4H40M18S in 256 kbps (73.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, AIFF, FLAC (compression AZW3, LZMA, ACE, ZIP, RAR, EML)
- Total pages original book: 368
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Gardening: Plants, Flower Arranging & Floral Crafts, Biography: General, Gardening: Flowers, Horticulture, Contemporary Fiction
- Download servers: JumpShare, Hotfile, Microsoft OneDrive, ShareByLink, 4Shared, Google Drive, Tresorit, BitShare, FreakShare. Compressed in AZW3, LZMA, ACE, ZIP, RAR, EML
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.95 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x23mm
- Weight: 255g
- Printed by: VINTAGE
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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