The Scent of Scandal

The Scent of Scandal
Author :
Publisher : Florida History and Culture
Total Pages : 0
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0813060567
ISBN-13 : 9780813060569
Rating : 4/5 (569 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Scent of Scandal by : Craig Pittman

Download or read book The Scent of Scandal written by Craig Pittman and published by Florida History and Culture. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivid and twisted imagination."--Paul Martin Brown, author of Wild Orchids of Florida "A fascinating true story of obsession, greed, and lust for the unobtainable. Reminds me a great deal of The Maltese Falcon. This rare flower is definitely the stuff that dreams are made of."--Ace Atkins, author of Devil's Garden and Infamous "Pittman has captured the extreme competition, unique characters, and general insanity that often typify the orchid world. The Scent of Scandal exemplifies how passion and profit can overrule common sense and the law."--Scott Steward, former associate editor, North American Native Orchid Journal 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, 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.


The Scent of Scandal Related Books

The Scent of Scandal
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Craig Pittman
Categories: Gardening
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Florida History and Culture

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

2012 Florida Book Awards, Silver Medal for Florida Non-Fiction "FANTASTIC. If I did not know most of the main players I would have thought the author had a vivi
Perfume
Language: en
Pages: 392
Authors: Richard Howard Stamelman
Categories: Antiques & Collectibles
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Publisher description
A Whiff of Scandal
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Carole Matthews
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-01 - Publisher: Hachette UK

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The riotously funny novel from the Sunday Times and multi-million-copy bestseller 'She's had men popping in and out of there all day. They're more regular than
Paving Paradise
Language: en
Pages: 499
Authors: Craig Pittman
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-05-25 - Publisher: University Press of Florida

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential ple
A Hint of Scandal
Language: en
Pages: 135
Authors: Tara Pammi
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-01 - Publisher: Harlequin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A notorious socialite is in over her head when she steps in for her twin sister at her wedding to a sexy groom who demands she be his wife in every way. Olivia