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03321aam a2200445 i 4500 001 3EE4BA7A5D7511ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20211215010111 008 181205t20192018nyuaf b 001 0 eng c 020 $a 9781101981634 020 $a 1101981636 035 $a (OCoLC)1077959451 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d DGU $d BDX $d TnLvILS $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a HV6665.G72 $b J64 2019 082 04 $a 364.168598 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnson, Kirk W., $e Author $0 (DLC)no2013105384 245 10 $a The feather thief : $b beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / $c Kirk Wallace Johnson. 264 1 $a [New York, N.Y.] : $b Penguin Books, $c 2019. 300 $a xiv, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates $b illustrations (some color) $c 22 cm 500 $a Includes A Penguin readers guide to the Feather Thief (12 pages). 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index. 505 0 $a Dead birds and rich men. The trials of Alfred Russel Wallace ; Lord Rothschild's museum ; The feather fever ; Birth of a movement ; The Victorian Brotherhood of Fly-tiers ; The future of fly-tying -- The Tring heist. Featherless in London ; Plan for Museum Invasion.Doc ; The case of the broken window ; "A very unusual crime" ; Hot birds on a cold trail ; Fluteplayer 1988 ; Behind bars ; Rot in hell ; The diagnosis ; The Asperger's defense ; The missing skins -- Truth and consequences. The 21st International Fly Tying Symposium ; The lost memory of the ocean ; Chasing leads in a time machine ; Dr. Prum's thumb drive ; "I'm not a thief" ; Three days in Norway ; Michelangelo vanishes ; Flowers in the bloodstream. 520 $a "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, Edwin grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier--and escaped into the darkness. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? What became of Edwin and the missing skins? The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, The Feather Thief is a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature."--Back cover. 600 10 $a Rist, Edwin. $0 (DLC)no2018106645 610 20 $a Natural History Museum (London, England) $0 (DLC)n 94113332 650 0 $a Theft from museums $0 (DLC)sh 92001864 650 0 $a Zoological specimens $0 (DLC)sh 85149980 650 0 $a Case studies $0 (DLC)sh 85020574 651 0 $a Great Britain $0 (DLC)n 79023147 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l ESPD725 $d 20230622091728.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20221027010043.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20220802013623.0 952 $l VHPA334 $d 20220303013219.0 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20211215023156.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3EE4BA7A5D7511ECBD31EEBF27ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search