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The Feather Thief - Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
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The Feather Thief - Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
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List price R457
Loot Price R365
Discovery Miles 3 650
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As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's
non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a
classic thriller." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the
most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." -Christian
Science Monitor From the author of The Fishermen and the Dragon, a
rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an
underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for
readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The
Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a
concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old
American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train for a suburban outpost
of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the
largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum
was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth
staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's
obsession: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the
museum, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins-some
collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred
Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them-and escaped
into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist
high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide
told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case
of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead
birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the
missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted
into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a
bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of
justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of
obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of
nature.
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