Orchid Fever
by Eric Hansen | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0413747506 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0413747506 Global Overview for this book
Registered by awaywithfairies of Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on 4/26/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by awaywithfairies from Sydney CBD, New South Wales Australia on Thursday, April 26, 2018
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A true story of one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions: the orchid, brought to book by the author, traveller and self-confessed orchid obsessive. From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, and the clandestine nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of Minnesota, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, ice-cream makers and visionary breeders; of courruption, murder and moths with 12-inch tongues; and of the vicious, bizarre world of international plant politics and the wide range of gentle people whose overriding passion is the cultivation of these beautiful, fragile flowers.
A true story of one of the world's strangest plants and humanity's oddest obsessions: the orchid, brought to book by the author, traveller and self-confessed orchid obsessive. From the Orinoco River to the hothouses of Kew, and the clandestine nurseries of Europe to the peat bogs of Minnesota, this is a dark and humorous tale of orchid smugglers, ice-cream makers and visionary breeders; of courruption, murder and moths with 12-inch tongues; and of the vicious, bizarre world of international plant politics and the wide range of gentle people whose overriding passion is the cultivation of these beautiful, fragile flowers.
Journal Entry 2 by awaywithfairies at Book Face, Macarthur Square in Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia on Friday, April 27, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (4/27/2018 UTC) at Book Face, Macarthur Square in Campbelltown, New South Wales Australia
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Left at the book exchange stand near Factorie and Converse on level 3.
Release #25 for the 2018 April Showers/May Flowers Challenge.
Release #25 for the 2018 April Showers/May Flowers Challenge.