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Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.
The Orchid Thief centres on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers and naturalists as improbably colourful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. -- Barrie Trinkle, Amazon.com -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine andere Ausgabe: Gebundene Ausgabe .
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Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animals) to unmapped territories in search of new varieties of Cattleya and Paphiopedilum. As knowledge of the family Orchidaceae grew to encompass the currently more than 60,000 species and over 100,000 hybrids, orchidelirium might have been expected to go the way of Dutch tulip mania. Yet, as journalist Susan Orlean found out, there still exists a vein of orchid madness strong enough to inspire larceny among collectors.
The Orchid Thief centers on south Florida and John Laroche, a quixotic, charismatic schemer once convicted of attempting to take endangered orchids from the Fakahatchee swamp, a state preserve. Laroche, a horticultural consultant who once ran an extensive nursery for the Seminole tribe, dreams of making a fortune for the Seminoles and himself by cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii. Laroche sums up the obsession that drives him and so many others:
I really have to watch myself, especially around plants. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feeling. You know what I mean. I'll see something and then suddenly I get that feeling. It's like I can't just have something--I have to have it and learn about it and grow it and sell it and master it and have a million of it.Even Orlean--so leery of orchid fever that she immediately gives away any plant that's pressed upon her by the growers in Laroche's circle--develops a desire to see a ghost orchid blooming and makes several ultimately unsuccessful treks into the Fakahatchee. Filled with Palm Beach socialites, Native Americans, English peers, smugglers, and naturalists as improbably colorful as the tropical blossoms that inspire them, this is a lyrical, funny, addictively entertaining read. --Barrie Trinkle -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I read Susan Orlean's excerpt in the NEW YORKER and rushed out to buy the book as I wanted to find out more about John Larouche "the orchid thief". I soon found out that all the "meat" of the story was in the NEW YORKER article and the book was nothing more than "bun". I wanted/hoped THE ORCHID THIEF to be a "juicy" tale of intrigue and adventure, but there's only a little of that in the book. Mostly we follow Ms. Orlean around Florida looking at orchids and talking to strange orchid growers. Many of her descriptions are breathtakingly beautiful and vivid, but as a STORY it really falls short. I was disappointed. (No wonder the writer who is adapting this for the screen struggled to adapt this work. I read he finally had to make up a story that really has nothing to do with the book because there isn't one within these pages.)
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Susan Orlean has really done it this time. She has written a book about, "passion itself, and the amazing lengths to which people will go to gratify it." Is it any wonder that her readers feel so passionately about this book. Many orchid experts find fault with the book's facts and criticize the lack of passion for orchids from Ms. Orlean while lovers of a good story and that crazy world known as south Florida rave about it. For my part, I enjoyed reading the Orchid Thief. It reads like a novel, so while I did notice a horticultural error or two myself, I was not reading it as a reference book, but for entertainment. I didn't find it to be quite the page turner I was expecting, but the characters are memorable, the stories are interesting and Ms. Orlean's writing is a pleasure. I am an amazon.com associate.
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While the subject of this book is captivating, the story seemed extraordinarily thin to me. Orlean's prose is, for the most part, bland, although there are a few moments of clever, vivid description. I came away feeling that this was a non-story. Comparisons to John McPhee are absurd. There is no such brilliance here. Instead there's a great deal of light, surface observation. And those observations are not elucidating or exact in the way we expect first-rate writing to be.
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PASS!
What a bore! If you really want a magical reading experience there are thousands of books more worthy. This is like a 260 page magazine aritcle - and not even an interesting one. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 15. Juli 2000 von pat hills
Swamp fever!
I love this kind of book! Using the story of the charismatic John Laroche as her starting point to explore inexplicable personal passions, Susan Orlean takes off into the botany of... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 12. Juni 2000 von Petsounds
Be careful! You WILL run out and buy an orchid!
I found this book through a magazine I read; I love nature, though so I gave it a try.
What a fantastic and informative book! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Juni 2000 von Julie
orchidelirium, new yorker style
The Orchid Thief, by Susan Orleans, discusses the case of John Laroche, a Florida man who was obsessed with orchids. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 8. Juni 2000 von Melissa Hardie
This Thief Stole My Affections
I thought this was a teriffic book. It was well-written, but not over-written in the way that books about flowers or chocolate tend to be. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juni 2000 von Maryann Bell
This Thief Stole My Affections
I thought this was a teriffic book. It was well-written, but not over-written in the way that books about flowers or chocolate tend to be. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juni 2000 von Maryann Bell
Plenty of Facts and Figures, But All Orchids Aren't Pretty
After the first couple of pages I was definately into this book. I didn't know that there are no black orchids, and that it will take seven years before an orchid will flower. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Mai 2000 von "obxgrl"
Quirky, offbeat -- a great escape!
I cracked this book on a flight from Seattle to Chicago and I barely raised my for head for 4 hours. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 19. Mai 2000 von Shelley E. Smith
Creative Nonfiction Makes Great History
I should say, first of all, that I'm getting my PhD in history. I'm not a literary critic, and I'm not as well-read as I'd like to be. But I thought this book was brilliant. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von Sarah Womack
Fascinating look at a world I never knew existed.
I don't know an orchid from a dandelion, but something about this book's description intrigued me. The pursuit of beauty takes many forms, and orchids appear to be a particularly... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. April 2000 von Paul D. Ferguson
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