Has anyone read this?    Intriguing.

Marie, Fairborn

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson

A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of 
the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in 
the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. 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 
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