Book : The Feather Thief Beauty, Obsession, And The Natural.

-Titulo Original : The Feather Thief Beauty, Obsession, And The Natural History Heist Of The Century

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Penguin Books

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As heard on NPRs This American Life“Absorbing . . . Though its non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” -Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” -Christian Science MonitorA rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at Londons 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 Edwins 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 Darwins, Alfred Russel Wallace, whod risked everything to gather them-and escaped into the darkness.Two 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 mans relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and mans destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature. Review “Fascinating . . . a complex tale of greed, deception, and ornithological sabotage.” -The New York Times Book Review“Fascinating from the first page to the last-you won’t be able to put it down.” -Southern Living“A fascinating book . . . the kind of intelligent reported account that alerts us to a threat and that, one hopes, will never itself be endangered.” -The Wall Street Journal“Thrilling . . . This book is The Orchid Thief for the fly-fishing and birding set.”-Paris Review, “Staff Picks”“Johnson, like Susan Orlean before him, is a magnifier: he sees grand themes-naivete, jealousy, depression, the entitlement of man . . . That vision makes a book about things like Victorian salmon fly tiers feel heavy as gold.” -The New Yorker, “What We’re Reading This Summer”“[A] true-crime caper recounted with relish.” -O, The Oprah Magazine, “10 Titles to Pick Up Now”“Vivid and arresting . . . Johnson [is] a wonderfully assured writer.” -The Times (London)“One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever. . . . Johnson is an intrepid journalist . . . [with] a fine knack for uncovering details that reveal, captivate, and disturb.”-Christian Science Monitor“An uncommon book . . . [that] informs and enlightens. . . A heist story that manages to underline the enduring and continuing importance of natural history collections and their incredible value to science. We need more books like this one.” -Science“The best compliment I can give a nonfiction writer is that they make me care deeply about an obscure topic I would otherwise never have been interested in. That’s the case with Kirk Wallace Johnson’s The Feather Thief.” -Eva Holland,Outside, “The Best Summer Books”“A fascinating account of a bizarre crime . . . The Feather Thief is one of the more peculiar and gripping crime stories in recent memory.” -LitHub CrimeReads, “The Essential True Crime Books of Spring 2018” “Johnson succeeds in conveying the gravity of this natural-history heist of the century, and one of The Feather Thief’s greatest strengths is the excitement, horror, and amazement it evokes. It’s nonfiction t