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The feather thief beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century

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...

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Main Author: Johnson, Kirk W. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Viking, [2018]
Subjects:
Rist, Edwin.
Theft from museums > Great Britain > Case studies.
Zoological specimens > Great Britain > Case studies.
Fly tying > Great Britain > Case studies.
True crime stories.
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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.
Physical Description:308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280 and [283]-289) and index.
ISBN:9781101981610
110198161X
9780525559092
0525559094
Author Notes:Kirk W. Johnson is the author of To Be a Friend Is Fatal and the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times , The Washington Post , and the Los Angeles Times , among others. He is the recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, the American Academy in Berlin, and the USC Annenberg Center.

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