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The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century / Kirk Wallace Johnson.
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.
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- ISBN: 9781101981610
- ISBN: 110198161X
- ISBN: 9780525559092
- ISBN: 0525559094
- Physical Description: 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280 and [283]-289) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue -- Dead birds and rich men. The trials of Alfred Russel Wallace ; Lord Rothschild's museum ; The feather fever ; Birth of a movement ; The Victorian Brotherhood of Fly-tiers ; The future of fly-tying -- The Tring heist. Featherless in London ; Plan for Museum Invasion.Doc ; The case of the broken window ; "A very unusual crime" ; Hot birds on a cold trail ; Fluteplayer 1988 ; Behind bars ; Rot in hell ; The diagnosis ; The Asperger's defense ; The missing skins -- Truth and consequences. The 21st International Fly Tying Symposium ; The lost memory of the ocean ; Chasing leads in a time machine ; Dr. Prum's thumb drive ; "I'm not a thief" ; Three days in Norway ; Michelangelo vanishes ; Flowers in the bloodstream. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Covington Branch | 364.1628598 R597j 2018 (Text) | 33126022820165 | Display | Available | - |
| Erlanger Branch | 364.1628598 R597j 2018 (Text) | 33126022820140 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |