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05553cam a2200697 i 4500 001 49153FC26FF011EDA6FFA1AE1F3FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20221129081532 008 180319s2018 nyuaf b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2018013162 020 $a 1432853171 020 $a 9781432853174 020 $a 0525559094 020 $a 9780525559092 020 $a 110198161X 020 $a 9781101981610 035 $a (OCoLC)999407802 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d CN5O4 $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d LPU $d QQ3 $d ZHB $d FM0 $d ILC $d TCH $d JQW $d IUK $d YDX $d OCLCO $d TKL $d IFJ $d CNEDM $d TXWBR $d QJK $d OCLCF $d DLC $d IST $d RB0 $d SQP $d YUS $d AZU $d NQN $d IV2 $d HTPCL $d TJC $d OCLCO $d UAB $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d T3L $d I8S $d TL4 $d OCLCO $d M$K $d OCLCO $d AZZPT $d JVQ $d OCLCO $d B@L $d UY0 $d OCLCO $d W8A $d UTP $d OCLCO $d TEU $d OCLCO $d TO9 $d JZV $d BYV $d ZQP $d YMW $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d KYC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a HV6665.G72 $b J64 2018 082 00 $a 364.16/28598 $2 23 084 $a TRV001000 $a TRU000000 $a TRV001000 $2 bisacsh 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. 264 1 $a New York, New York : $b Viking, $c [2018] 300 $a x, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue -- 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, 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. 650 1 $a Natural history museums. 650 6 $a Vol dans les museÌes $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 $z Grande-Bretagne $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 $v EÌtudes de cas. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 650 6 $a Zoologie $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 $x SpeÌcimens $0 (CaQQLa)201-0236163 $z Grande-Bretagne $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 $v EÌtudes de cas. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 650 6 $a Mouches artificielles $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 $x Montage $0 (CaQQLa)201-0044861 $z Grande-Bretagne $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 $v EÌtudes de cas. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0376950 650 7 $a NATURE $x Birds. $x Birds. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a TRUE CRIME $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS $x Museum Administration & Museology. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Rist, Edwin. $2 caae 610 27 $a Natural History Museum (London, England) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00702345 650 7 $a Fly tying. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00928424 650 7 $a Theft from museums. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01149462 650 7 $a Zoological specimens. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01184690 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 650 7 $a Theft $z England $v Case studies. $2 sears 650 7 $a Birds $x Collection and preservation $z England. $2 sears 650 7 $a Thieves $z United States $v Biography. $2 sears 655 4 $a Nonfiction. 655 7 $a Case studies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423765 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919985 655 7 $a True crime stories. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a ReÌcits criminels. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001265 776 08 $i Online version: $a Johnson, Kirk W. $t Feather thief. $d New York : Viking, [2018] $z 9781101981627 $w (DLC) 2018013958 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20221129083507.0 $n 18 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=49153FC26FF011EDA6FFA1AE1F3FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search