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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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The feather thief : |b beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / |c Kirk Wallace Johnson. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Viking, |c [2018] | |
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| 300 | |a 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280 and [283]-289) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 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. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Rist, Edwin. |
| 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. | |
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