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The Orchid Thief
AuthorSusan Orlean
GenreNon-fiction, biography
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1998
Media typePrint
Pagespp. 284
ISBN978-0-679-44739-9

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]

  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.

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