the_lirazel reviewed The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
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308 pages
English language
Published Jan. 18, 2018
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
3 stars
(4 reviews)
On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice.
Subjects
- NATURE / Animals / Birds
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology
- Theft from museums
- Natural history museums
- Natural History Museum (London, England)
- Zoological specimens
- TRUE CRIME / General
- Fly tying