This is a great book. It's a travel book but also contains everything you need to know about orchids. The world of orchids is dangerous, tangled with legal problems and fanatics and absolutely fascinating. I have always had and orchid in my home since reading this book. They have grown with varying degrees of success and failure. The one I have now has been flowering constantly since last February. This book will make you want to go out and get one.

Released on Tuesday, January 11, 2005 at about 1:00:00 PM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Angel Inn, Nr Briggate in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England United Kingdom.

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Picked this up at the Meet in Leeds January 11. With Chapter headings like 'Bodice Rippers' I am game for giving it a read! Actually it does look like a good book. Will let you all know.....

Reserved as a trade for Nkwriter As soon as I have read it!

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Released to Nkwriter in Canada as Trade.

Got the book in the mail a little while back, but I kept forgetting to journal it. Thanks so much, Sterile, for the book and the lovely bookmark.

I read the first two chapters on the subway this morning, and it is, so far, absolutely fascinating. It's amazing how people will find something to obsess about.

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Absolutely fascinating, not so much for orchid details, but for the portraits of the international orchid burocracy and the orchid fanciers underground.

As in every endeavor, this book show how even well-meaning pencil pushers with the power of institutions behind them do more damage than good, and how most of them are far from well-meaning. And how independent amateurs can accomplish almost anything in the service of the thing they love.

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Off to cougmax for a bookrelay.

I just read the Orchid Thief so this looks like a wonderful way to continue my ed on everything orchids...
thanks for sending this my way!