An edition of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
(2018)
The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
by Kirk Wallace Johnson
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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.
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NATURE / Animals / Birds, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Theft from museums, Natural history museums, Natural History Museum (London, England), Zoological specimens, TRUE CRIME / General, Fly tying, Case studies, Criminal investigation, Natural History Museum (London, England), Large type books, Fly tying, Theft, Museums, great britain, Birds, great britain, Zoological specimens, collection and preservation, FeathersPeople
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes notes (pages [255]-280), bibliography (pages [283]-289) and index (pages [291]-308).
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