The Feather Thief
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The Feather Thief Pdf Book
Author: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher: Viking
Publish date: (April 24, 2018)
ISBN-10: 110198161X
ISBN-13: 978-1101981610
Pages: 300 eBook pages can be different
Language: English
Genres: Literature & Fiction ,Thrillers & Suspense , Politics & Social Sciences
On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London’s 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 Edwin’s 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 Darwin’s, Alfred Russel Wallace, who’d risked everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness.
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