English language
Published Nov. 22, 2018 by Penguin Random House.
Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Kirk Wallace Johnson: Feather Thief (2018, Penguin Random House)
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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.
Subjects
- Natural history museums
- Theft
- Zoological specimens, collection and preservation
- Feathers