The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession

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.

• | Author: Sarah Bilston
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: May 06, 2025
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780674272606
• | ISBN-10: 0674272609