Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obse Alexander McCall Smith --Dorie Greenspan

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Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obse Alexander McCall Smith --Dorie GreenspanThe forgotten story of a decades long international quest for a rare and coveted orchid, chronicling the botanists, plant hunters, and collectors who relentlessly pursued it at great human and environmental cost. In 1818, a curious root arrived in a small English village, tucked seemingly by accident in a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist who cultivated it soon realized that he had something remarkable on his hands: an