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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.
- Sales Rank: #708463 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-03-18
- Released on: 2012-03-18
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Craig Pittman is an award-winning journalist who writes about environmental issues for Florida’s largest newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times. He is the coauthor of Paving Paradise and author of Manatee Insanity.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Investigative reporting + true-crime writing = pace and tension of a great detective novel
By Cynthia Barnett
Investigative journalist Craig Pittman had covered plenty of crazy people by the time he stepped onto the tranquil grounds of Sarasota's Marie Selby Botanical Gardens to report on a case of orchid smuggling in 2003.
There was the triple killer he interviewed on Death Row who took to writing him letters with smiley faces dotting the i's. There was the woman so in love with manatees she left a date to wade into the water with them fully clothed, then tackled a major political campaign on their behalf. Pittman's second book even had crazy in the name: "Manatee Insanity."
But none of that came close to the maniacal obsession to possess and name a new orchid discovered growing on a hillside in northern Peru. The petals of Phragmipedium kovachii stretch up like hot-pink fairy wings poised to soar away with the swollen pouch that makes it a "slipper orchid." The story of how it got to Selby, and how reputable scientists lost their minds in the race to be first to describe it, makes for incredible reading in "The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World's Most Beautiful Orchid."
If it were fiction, "The Scent of Scandal" might be skewered for improbability: A Ph.D. taxonomist named Guido who punches out a cop. Not one but two collectors trying to pitch the idea of a wild-orchid-hunter reality show -- starring themselves as the macho leading man.
Pittman is on staff at the Tampa Bay Times, where he has established himself as one of the nation's top environmental reporters. He came to the beat more than 20 years ago on staff at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Local readers will appreciate his insights into the city's unique history and society scene. He recounts Selby's dazzling Orchid Ball, where in spring 2002, "real estate moguls and mortgage-rate gamblers rubbed shoulders with theater angels and gallery geeks." The revelers could not have imagined the resentments blooming among Selby's "orchid boys" who felt the institution had strayed too far from their showy obsession under then-director Meg Lowman.
Lowman, a renowned rainforest biologist, was out of town when collector Michael Kovach rushed to Selby from Miami International Airport with the prize that would soon be named for him. Those who were on duty at Selby's Orchid Identification Center on the day they now curse could seem to think only of fame. The Selby orchid illustrator's first thoughts: "... great publicity if handled correctly, which would stir the sleeping board members and demonstrate that we actually existed."
The one thing that didn't come to mind: Making absolutely sure that Kovach had legally brought the orchid home from the Peruvian wilds.
Pittman's two previous books are also about vanishing, vulnerable icons of nature -- first wetlands, then manatees -- and our failure to protect them. His incisive reporting leaves the reader astounded by the crass treatment of ecological resources, and taking little comfort in the ability of government to protect them. "The Scent of Scandal" is his best book yet, fusing investigative reporting and true-crime writing to create the pace and tension of a great detective novel.
The reader wishes only for more -- that Pittman would have completed Lowman's story (she landed as director of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh), or that he would have traveled to Peru to write more on orchid history and ecology. "The Scent of Scandal" is not that sort of book because Pittman is a devoted daily newspaper reporter. Florida is lucky to have him as an environmental watchdog. One can only imagine the crazy tale he'll sniff up next.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
A great stirrer up of passions.
By G. E Farr
Back in 1960 when I turned sixteen a couple of friends and I headed out to explore Big Cypress. Part of our purpose was to experiment with cigarettes and bourbon. For me, at least, son of a hunting guide and nephew of the first biologist ever hired by the old Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, the appeal was even more (really!)the opportunity to explore and investigate the wild places and wildlife. I craved encounters with anything that ran, flew, or -- best of all -- slithered. But one of our number was intersted in the plants, in particular orchids. And they were profuse. The little Butterfly Orchids grew in such profusion that when they bloomed they perfumed the air downwind of the cypress domes they favored. Cigar Orchids and Ghost Orchids were also common, and even more captivating. I was smitten. I still am. We were all smitten. So we stole them. Stole them shamelessly and enthusiastically for parents, teachers, and girls. And on nearby Chevalier Loop (which the locals all called "Chevrolet") a retired Navy Chief had established his own orchid jungle, with boardwalks running out over the swamp waters. He was friendly and informative with us, but he hated "garden club ladies" with a bitter passion, expressed with the force and vocabulary honed in a former life at sea, on warships, in combat. The ladies arrived, according to him, in chauferred limosines and -- stole orchids. And so I learned, first hand and young, that orchids, as James II of England said of falconry, are "a great stirrer up of passions." "A Scent of Scandal" is a recounting of one more story of these most beautiful and erotic of flowers, and of the passionate, irrational, and often illegal actions they inspire. Our merry 1960 band of hormonally overloaded high school boys, a Popeye-double Navy Chief, and larcenous rich Miami ladies was far less varied and colorful than the cast of orchid fanatics Craig Pittman follows through the episode of discovery and intrigue he reports in " Scent...". Other reviews perfectly describe in accurate detail the plot and specific subject matter of this fascinating book. For me it was a return to and reminder of that first introduction to the perilous intoxication of orchids and wonder of encountering them in the wild places they inhabit and symbolize.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Wonderfully written exposé on the Orchid World....
By JeffKnowsStuff
Though orchids are a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide, the true money lies with individuals who take advantage of new species for both hybridization and collectors value.
This book explains the grey area encompassing the legal ownership and naming rights of orchids, and the rush to be the first to market...
The importance of this flower lies in the large size and new color, never before seen in the Phragmipedium genus. This makes collectors and hybridizers salivate.
This being said, I am the owner of a legally obtained Phrag kovachii seedling, which by the way are down to about $100 for a two inch seedling from several hundred a few years ago.
Even the growers, whom I speak with personally, many mentioned in this book, speculate that thieves took several thousand of these plants from the wild to supply their illegal ventures and wealthy collectors.
A wonderful well written account!
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