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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Johnson, Kirk W., author.     Subjects     Natural History Museum (London, England)     Theft from museums -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Zoological specimens -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Fly tying -- Great Britain -- Case studies.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Johnson, Kirk W., author.       by title:      Feather thief : beau...         MARC Display

Feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / Kirk Wallace Johnson. by Johnson, Kirk W., author. [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, 2019. Subjects Natural History Museum (London, England)   Theft from museums -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Zoological specimens -- Great Britain -- Case studies.   Fly tying -- Great Britain -- Case studies. ISBN:  9781101981634 (paperback) 1101981636 (paperback) Description:  xiv, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "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 largest ornithological collections in the world, the Tring museum was 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, Edwin grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier--and escaped into the darkness. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? What became of Edwin and the missing skins? The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, The Feather Thief is a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature"--Page [4] of cover.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.16285 Johnson   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.16285 Jo   Checked In Add Copy to MyList Molokai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.16285 Jo pb Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Nonfiction 364.16285 Jo   Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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