The feather thief : beauty, obsession, and the natural history heist of the century
Publication Information
New York : Viking, [2018]
Physical Description
308 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
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.