num_pages: 320
description: 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. 
language: English
title: Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
titlecomplete: Blood Orchid: An Unnatural History of America
genres: History, Travel, Westerns, Journalism, Memoir, Crime, Nonfiction, Natural History
ratings_count: 283
publisher: North Point Press