![]() I’ll see something, and then suddenly I get that feeling. Even now, just being here, I still get that collector feel. That is how Laroche describes his obsession to the beautiful flowers, “I have to watch myself, especially around plants. He was dreaming about cloning the rare ghost orchid Polyrrhiza lindenii a making a fortune out of it for himself and his Seminole partners. Some orchid owners designate a person as an “orchid heir” in their wills since the owners expect that their precious orchids will outlive them. In fact, orchids can theoretically live forever, since they have no natural enemies. Orchids have fascinated people for many centuries. There is even special name created for it, orchidelirium. She became just as passionate about the orchids as subjects of her investigation were. Susan Orleans went to Florida to investigate the mystical story and ended up spending nearly two years hiking the swamps of Florida, learning about orchids, ecology, and Laroche’s partners, members of Seminole tribes. ![]() He was arrested together with some people from Seminole tribe for poaching rare orchids near the swamps in South Florida. John Laroche, the main hero of the book, is a plant dealer, who was determined to find and clone the rare and precious ghost orchid for profit. We Can Help with Writing Your Book Review Paper on Any Book! We do not know whether romance between Laroche and Orlean had place in real life, but passion for the flower was definitely at the heart of both of them. In the movie, Susan Orlean hero becomes Laroche’s lover and partner in his illegal business, production of drugs by processing orchids into psychoactive substance. The book served as a basis for a movie Adaptation, in many events were fictionalized. Susan Orlean was so intrigued by the story, that later an article developed into a book. First, as a result of the investigation, an article in The New Yorker magazine appeared. In 1994, Susan Orlean did her journalist investigation of John Laroche’s conviction for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. The Orchid Thief is a book by writer and journalist Susan Orlean and is based on a true story.
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