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Orchid Fever [Audiobook] download free by Hansen Eric

Orchid Fever Audiobook download free by Hansen Eric
  • Listen audiobook: Orchid Fever
  • Author: Hansen Eric
  • Release date: 2004/8/2
  • Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
  • ISBN: 9780679771838
  • Rating: 7.91 of 10
  • Votes: 391
  • Review by: Antonio Sherman
  • Review rating: 7.34 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/11
  • Duration: 3H39M55S in 256 kbps (57.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-25
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: OPUS, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPC, OGG (compression RAR, ZIP, AZW4, LHA, BZ, ARC)
  • Total pages original book: 288
  • Includes a PDF summary of 31 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 22M53S (6.2 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: 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
  • Other categories, genre or collection: Adventure Holidays, Guidebooks, Gardening: Plants, Travel Writing, Gardening: Flowers
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  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 15.50 USD
  • Dimensions: 133.6x204.22x15.49mm
  • Weight: 208.65g
  • Printed by: Vintage Books
  • Published in: New York, United States

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Categories: English, Travel and Holiday Guides, 2004, RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
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