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The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession Harrison Michael Soos he follows the clues asA New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of the Year 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 a small English village, tuckedseemingly by accidentin a packing case mailed from Brazil. The amateur botanist who cultivated it soon