by Susan Orlean · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433969361
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«El ladrón de orquídeas» is Susan Orlean's nonfiction chronicle, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardback (312 pages, in Spanish).
El ladrón de orquídeas recounts the real case of John Laroche, accused along with three Seminole Indians of stealing protected orchids from the Fakahatchee swamps (Florida), and places it in the so-called Victorian orchid fever, when collectors and explorers competed to find rare species.
It is part of the Panorama de narrativas collection (no. 476). Translated by Cecilia Ceriani and Txaro Santoro; the English original, The Orchid Thief, appeared in 1998.
For the general public, with special interest for fans of natural history, nonfiction, and real crime stories.
Susan Orlean is an American journalist, television writer, and bestselling author of The Orchid Thief and The Library Book. She has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1992, and has contributed articles to many magazines including Vogue, Rolling Stone, Esquire, and Outside. In 2021, Orlean joined the writing team of HBO comedy series How To with John Wilson.
