- NATURE / Animals / Birds, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Theft from museums, Natural history museums
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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Classical in form, grave, earnest and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Kirk Wallace Johnson
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin Books, Hutchinson
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781432853174
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