{"product_id":"the-feather-thief-beauty-obsession-and-the-natural-history-heist-of-the-century-paperback","title":"The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKirk Wallace Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAs heard on NPR's \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, \u003ci\u003eThe Feather Thief\u003c\/i\u003e contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.\" --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's \u003ci\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.\" --\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fishermen and the Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e, a rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger in the Woods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lost City of Z\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Orchid Thief\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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, the champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins--some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's, Alfred Russel Wallace, who'd risked everything to gather them--and escaped into the darkness.\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, \u003ci\u003eThe Feather Thief\u003c\/i\u003e is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirk W. Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Fishermen and the Dragon \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTo Be a Friend Is Fatal, \u003c\/i\u003eand the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, which he started after serving with USAID in Fallujah. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and on \u003ci\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 23, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51979105796397,"sku":"9781101981634","price":19.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/cnJQbGVjUGpQQUs4ZU5STjJPL21EQT09.webp?v=1775819016","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-feather-thief-beauty-obsession-and-the-natural-history-heist-of-the-century-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}