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100 1 _aJohnson, Kirk Wallace
245 1 4 _aThe feather thief
_b: the natural history heist of the century
_c/ Kirk Wallace Johnson
260 _aLondon :
_bWindmill Books,
_c2019
300 _a297 p., [16] p. of illustrations
505 0 _aPrologue -- Dead birds and rich men. The trials of Alfred Russel Wallace ; Lord Rothschild's museum ; The feather fever ; Birth of a movement ; The Victorian Brotherhood of Fly-tiers ; The future of fly-tying -- The Tring heist. Featherless in London ; Plan for Museum Invasion.Doc ; The case of the broken window ; "A very unusual crime" ; Hot birds on a cold trail ; Fluteplayer 1988 ; Behind bars ; Rot in hell ; The diagnosis ; The Asperger's defense ; The missing skins -- Truth and consequences. The 21st International Fly Tying Symposium ; The lost memory of the ocean ; Chasing leads in a time machine ; Dr. Prum's thumb drive ; "I'm not a thief" ; Three days in Norway ; Michelangelo vanishes ; Feathers in the bloodstream
520 _a'A tale of obsession ... vivid and arresting' - The Times One summer evening in 2009, twenty-year-old musical prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the Natural History Museum at Tring, home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world. Once inside, Rist grabbed as many rare bird specimens as he was able to carry before escaping into the darkness. Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist-deep in a river in New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide first told him about the heist. But what would possess a person to steal dead birds? And had Rist paid for his crime? In search of answers, Johnson embarked upon a worldwide investigation, leading him into the fiercely secretive underground community obsessed with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Was Edwin Rist a genius or narcissist? Mastermind or pawn?
610 2 7 _aNatural History Museum (London, England)
650 0 _aTheft from museums-
_zGreat Britain-
_vCase studies
650 0 _aZoological specimens-
_zGreat Britain-
_vCase studies
650 0 _aFly tying-
_zGreat Britain-
_vCase studies
650 4 _aAves
650 7 _aFly tying.
650 7 _aTheft from museums.
650 7 _aZoological specimens.
650 4 _aCriminología
650 4 _aMuseos de ciencias naturales
651 7 _aGran Bretaña
655 7 _aCase studies.
655 7 _aTrue crime stories.
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041 _aEnglish
653 _aREADING IN ENGLISH