Vertigo
Richard Rudgley: Plant obsessions, 15 July 1999
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
by Susan Orlean.
Heinemann, 348 pp., £12.99, April 1999,0 434 00783 8 Show More
by Susan Orlean.
Heinemann, 348 pp., £12.99, April 1999,
Plants of Life, Plants of Death
by Frederick Simoons.
Wisconsin, 568 pp., £27.95, September 1998,0 299 15904 3 Show More
by Frederick Simoons.
Wisconsin, 568 pp., £27.95, September 1998,
“... explore the nature of this more subtle relationship between the vegetable kingdom and ourselves. Susan Orlean approaches the shadowy world of orchid fanatics in Florida as an outsider, but one mindful of the inherent danger in her attempt to understand the nature of obsession. She is quick to pass on orchids given to her by addicts in case ... ”
