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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

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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 vital largest ornithological collections on the earth, the Tring museum used to be 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 recent of Darwin’s, Alfred Russel Wallace, who’d risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness.

Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson used to be waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He used to be soon consumed by the odd 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 used to be catapulted into a years-long, all over the world investigation. The gripping story of a unusual and shocking crime, and one man’s relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief could also be a captivating exploration of obsession, and man’s destructive instinct to harvest the wonderful thing about nature.

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