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Author:

Johnson, Kirk W., author.

Title:

The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / Kirk Wallace Johnson.

Publisher:

Viking,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Rist, Edwin,--(Flautist)
Natural History Museum (London, England)
Theft from museums--Great Britain--Case studies.
Zoological specimens--Great Britain--Case studies.
Fly tying--Great Britain--Case studies.
True crime stories.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280 and [283]-289) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0525559094
9780525559092
110198161X
9781101981610

OCLC:

(OCoLC)999407802

LCCN:

2018013162

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