Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America

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In this ground-shaking breath-taking cri de coeur Bowden delves with love-driven fury for the roots of our brutal history in this once-brave New World. The figures he casts before us-from Pancho Villa to a modern-day drug lord from General Sherman to a skid-row Sioux named Robert Sundance-trace a story not so much of rapaciousness as of fear and loathing. Bowden twines it with the natural history of the hammer orchid a carnivore whose deceptive delicacy comes to stand for the terror and hypocrisy that have perverted our love of the land its peoples and our very natures.