The Orchid Thief

The Orchid Thief
AuthorSusan Orlean
GenreNon-fiction, biography
PublisherRandom House
Publication date
1998
Media typePrint
Pagespp. 284
ISBN978-0-679-44739-9

The Orchid Thief is a 1998 non-fiction book by American journalist Susan Orlean, based on her investigation of the 1994 arrest of horticulturist John Laroche and a group of Seminoles in south Florida for poaching rare orchids in the Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve.