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Craig Pittman The Scent of Scandal (Paperback) (US IMPORT)
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- Publication Name
- The Scent of Scandal
- Title
- The Scent of Scandal
- Subtitle
- Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid
- EAN
- 9780813060569
- ISBN
- 9780813060569
- Genre
- Biography
- Release Date
- 30/08/2014
- Release Year
- 2014
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Length
- 152mm
- Series
- Florida History and Culture
- UPC
- 9780813060569
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University Press of Florida
- Topic
- True Crime
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 456g
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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After its Peruvian discovery in 2002, Phragmipedium kovachii became the rarest and most sought-after orchid in the world. Prices soared to $10,000 on the black market. Then one showed up at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, USA, where every year more than 100,000 people visit. They come for the lush landscape on Sarasota Bay and for Selby's vast orchid collection, one of the most magnificent in the world. The collision between Selby's scientists and the smugglers of Phrag. Kovachii, a rare ladyslipper orchid hailed as the most significant and beautiful new species discovered in a century, led to search warrants, a grand jury investigation, and criminal charges. It made headlines around the country, cost the gardens hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations, and led to tremendous internal turmoil. Investigative journalist Craig Pittman unravels this tangled web to shine a spotlight on flaws in the international treaties governing trade in endangered wildlife--which may protect individual plants and animals in shipping but do little to halt the destruction of whole colonies in the wild. The Scent of Scandal unspools like a riveting mystery novel, stranger than anything in Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief or the film Adaptation. Pittman shows how some people can become so obsessed--with beauty, with profit, with fame--that they will ignore everything, even the law.
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University Press of Florida
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9780813060569
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The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid
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Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
304 Pages
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229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
456g
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Florida History and Culture
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