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03041aam a2200433Ii 4500 001 0796B5108FD211E8AEF4D4F696128E48 003 SILO 005 20180725011446 007 tb 008 180622s2018 miuaf db 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1432853171 020 $a 9781432853174 035 $a (OCoLC)1041709357 040 $a JBI $b eng $e rda $c JBI $d JBI $d OCLCO $d BKL $d POISA $d UOK $d OCLCF $d IOU $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 082 04 $a 364.16/28598 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnson, Kirk W., $e author. 245 14 $a The feather thief : $b beauty, obsession and the natural history heist of the century / $c Kirk Wallace Johnson. 250 $a Large print edition. 264 1 $a Farmington Hills, Mich. : $b Gale, $c 2018. 300 $a 483 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 340 $n large type $2 rda 490 1 $a Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-475). 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, 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."--Page [2] of cover. 600 10 $a Rist, Edwin. 610 20 $a Natural History Museum (London, England) 650 0 $a Theft from museums $z Great Britain $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Zoological specimens $z Great Britain $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Fly tying $z Great Britain $v Case studies. 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 830 0 $a Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction. 941 $a 3 945 $a lpt 952 $l UGPF911 $d 20231207020330.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006115700.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20180725011511.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0796B5108FD211E8AEF4D4F696128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search