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Describe your latest work. When I started working on Plant-Thinking in 2008, I had no idea that the project would turn out to be as broad as it did.... Continue »

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Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Michael MarderMichael Marder 9780231161251

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The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession

by Susan Orlean

ISBN13: 9780307795298
ISBN10: 0307795292
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Describes the life and times of John Laroche, a plant smuggler and orchid thief, and the eccentric world of Florida's obsessed collectors of rare plants

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\Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue, and Esquire. She is the author of Saturday Night, a New York Times Notable Book of 1990, which, in the words of Entertainment Weekly, "calls to mind Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, and screwball comedy." She lives in New York City.

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ISBN:: 9780307795298
Publisher:: Ballantine
Subject:: main_subject
Author:: Orlean, Susan
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: 20000104
Binding:: ELECTRONIC
Language:: English
Pages:: 284

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