An edition of The Feather Thief (2018)
Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
By Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publish Date
2019
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Language
eng
Pages
336
Description:
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, Case studies, Criminal investigation, Natural History Museum (London, England), Large type books, Fly tying, Theft, Museums, great britain, Birds, great britain, Zoological specimens, collection and preservation
People: Edwin Rist
Places: Great Britain