The Emerald Orchid - Softcover

Koopowitz, Harold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991276132 ISBN 13: 9780991276134

Publisher: Orchid Digest, 2017

Synopsis

The Emerald Orchid takes the reader on an exciting adventure starting in Southern California and progressing to Singapore and from there into northern Thailand. Here our heroes, George and his wife Matilda, together with their associates William, Jake and Great-aunt Bertha have been forced by circumstances to try to steal the pollen from a fabulous emerald orchid. Along the way they meet an assorted cast of characters who either stand in their way or help them overcome great hardships, not to mention of course flying snakes, little dragons and elephants. And do demons really demand blood sacrifices when the moon is half-full?

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About the Author

Harold Koopowitz grew up in the Eastern Cape of South Africa where he spent most of his childhood exploring the plants and animals of the veldt. He has a M.Sc. degree from Rhodes University in South Africa and a Ph.D. from UCLA. Harold lives in Orange County, Southern California where he is Professor Emeritus in Biology at the University of California at Irvine. He has written a number of non-fiction books on conservation and gardening topics as well as over a hundred papers and chapters on scientific topics. His hobbies include breeding orchid and daffodil hybrids and writing. He shares a modest home and very large greenhouse with his husband Stephen Hampson who is horticulturist and proofreader supreme. Harold has been honored with the Herbert Medal from the International Plant Life Society; the Westonbirt Orchid Medal as well as the Ralph B. White Medal for innovation in daffodil breeding both from the Royal Horticultural Society. He has been recognized with the Orchid Digest Medal for meritorious work on orchids as well as Gold Medals from the American Orchid Society and the American Daffodil Society for his contributions to both orchid and daffodil worlds.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orchid Digest
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0991276132
• ISBN 13: 9780991276134
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336