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| Author | Susan Orlean |
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| Genre | Non-fiction, biography |
| Publisher | Random House |
Publication date | 1998 |
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| Pages | pp. 284 |
| ISBN | 978-0-679-44739-9 |
The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of horticulturist John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.[1]
- ^ "In Pursuit of a criminal and his breathtaking quarry". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on November 23, 2005. Retrieved September 28, 2010.