Title: The Feather Thief
Subtitle: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Description: 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.
Subjects: NATURE / Animals / Birds, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Museum Administration & Museology, Theft from museums, Natural history museums, Natural History Museum (London, England), Zoological specimens, TRUE CRIME / General, Fly tying, Case studies, Criminal investigation, Natural History Museum (London, England), Large type books, Fly tying, Theft, Museums, great britain, Birds, great britain, Zoological specimens, collection and preservation, Feathers
Places: Great Britain
People: Edwin Rist