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 | The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession (Ballantine Reader's Circle) (13th Edition) by Susan Orlean Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-449-00371-X / 044900371X ISBN-13: 978-0-449-00371-8 / 9780449003718 Orchidelirium is the name the Victorians gave to the flower madness that is for botanical collectors the equivalent of gold fever. Wealthy orchid fanatics of that era sent explorers (heavily armed, more to protect themselves against other orchid seekers than against hostile natives or wild animal | |