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Orchid hunters, tells the adventures of scientists Mutis, Humboldt, Ruiz and Pabon and traders looters who invaded the tropics in the nineteenth century to bring orchids to Europe. Stories of shipwrecks and looting, fires that consumed the material, deaths from malaria, "pernicious fever" or murders dagger, always narrated in parallel with the way they are now grown and studied orchids in Colombia one of the countries with greatest biodiversity in the world.