The Lost Orchid

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The Lost Orchid is written by Sarah Bilston and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674300408 (ISBN 10) and 9780674300408 (ISBN 13).

Sarah Bilston unfolds the story of orchid mania, the nineteenth-century craze among European and North American collectors vying to own the world’s most coveted flowers. Focusing the hunt for the so-called lost orchid, an especially vaunted flower native to Brazil, Bilston reveals the enormous human and environmental cost of a colonial obsession.