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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