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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
nature.(less)
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