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Orchid Fever

Orchid Fever


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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.



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"A wonderful book. I've been up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror and clucking at the vivid images of bureaucracy with the bit in its teeth....Orchid Fever is a bitterly funny, lubricious, lunatic journey in the unsettling company of the orchid world's most outrageous screwballs, some so bizarre and irrational they seem to have fallen among us from a flying saucer."
-- Annie Proulx, author of The Shipping News
"Orchid Fever is a tale that cross-pollinates Darwin and Conrad. A vivid and compelling investigation of how simple flowers can lure strong minds to madness."
-- Joe Kane, author of Running the Amazon
"Told with great style and sardonic wit, this is a story about greed, tragicomic bureacracy, and a most peculiar obsession that I still find hard to believe."
-- Marc Reisner, author of Cadillac Desert


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780679451419
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Pantheon Books Inc
  • Height: 229 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0679451412
  • Publisher Date: 22 Feb 2000
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Weight: 431 gr


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