The Feather Thief
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
About this book
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
- birds, great britain
- business & economics / museum administration & museology
- case studies
- criminal investigation
- england)
- feathers
- fly tying
- large type books
- museums, great britain
- natural history museum (london
- natural history museum (london, england)
- natural history museums
- nature / animals / birds
- theft
- theft from museums
- true crime / general
- zoological specimens
- zoological specimens, collection and preservation