Orchid Fever A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy

Name: Orchid Fever A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy
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ISBN: 9780679771838

ISBN-10: 0679771832

ISBN-13: 9780679771838

Edition: N/A

Authors: Eric Hansen

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The acclaimed author of Motoring with Mohammed brings us a compelling adventure into the remarkable world of the orchid and the impossibly bizarre array of international characters who dedicte their lives to it. The orchid is used for everything from medicine for elephants to an aphrodisiac ice cream. A Malaysian species can grow to weigh half a ton while a South American species fires miniature pollen darts at nectar-sucking bees. But the orchid is also the center of an illicit international business: one grower in Santa Barbara tends his plants while toting an Uzi, and a former collector has been in hiding for seven years after serving a jail sentence for smuggling thirty dollars worth…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English

Eric Hansen has been reporting on college sports since 1993 and has won several national awards from the Football Writers Association of America. Hansen worked his way up to managing editor for the Irish Sports Report where he stayed for seven years. He now works as the beat writer for Notre Dame football and as an assistant sports editor for the South Bend Tribune . He currently lives in South Bend, Indiana.