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Audio Book Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy (Vintage Departures) with Free MOBI EDITION Download Now!

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 of orchids into Britain. Deftly written and captivatingly researched, Orchid Fever is an endlessly enchanting and entertaining tour of an exotic world."A wonderful book, I've been up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror and clucking at the vivid images of bureaucracy with the bit in its teeth." —Annie Proulx"An extraordinary, well-told tale of botany, obsession and plant politics. Hansen's vivid descriptions of the complex techniques some orchids use to pollinate themselves will raise your eyebrows at nature's sexual ingenuity." —USA Today

At this time of writing, The Audiobook Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy (Vintage Departures) has garnered 10 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Audiobook is Good TO READ!

Audio Book Orchid Fever: A Horticultural Tale of Love, Lust, and Lunacy (Vintage Departures) with Free MOBI EDITION!

I ordered this by mistake, thinking it was a guide (read too many synopses in too short a period of time). Excellent story; many things are so funny while other things make you want to smack the bureaucracy. Certainly an eye opener to the incongruities of laws, the need to have established criterion for determining what is endangered, and the intricacies of various groups and interests not able to communicate well.Even if you are not into orchids - or flowers of any kind - it is still a great read. The various situations are so well described that he makes you feel like you are there, whether in the jungles of Borneo, the judging tables of an orchid competition, appreciating how people are motivated by various aspects of the plant and/or the processes, or talking with the people who are diligently working to preserve and produce these wonders of nature. It is certainly a page turner!

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