The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession by Sarah Bilston

The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

Sarah Bilston

272 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction
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The 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 ...

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