Orchid Fever

Orchid FeverBy: Eric Hansen 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

and scares the tuna salad out of him

He soon begins to wonder if his writing has any value at all

gets overwhelmed and discouraged

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oftentimes humorous and much like love itself-- splendorous

By: Catherine Rayner     Winner of the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal 2009

and reignite their passion – for each other and for their homeland

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books are her refuge and movies her escape

Without boundaries and restraint

But when the medium becomes a victim of her own dire prediction and is killed