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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]