Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

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Feather Thief (2019, Penguin Random House)

320 pages

English language

Published Jan. 18, 2019 by Penguin Random House.

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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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Subjects

  • Theft
  • Museums, great britain
  • Birds, great britain