The feather thief
beauty obsession and the natural history heist of the century
The feather thief
beauty obsession and the natural history heist of the century
Book - 2018
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. Print run 50,000.
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| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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