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008    180319s2018    nyuaf    b    001 0 eng   
020    9781101981610|qhardcover 
020    110198161X|qhardcover 
020    9780525559092|qpaperback 
020    0525559094|qpaperback 
020    9781432853174 
020    1432853171 
041    eng 
082 00 364.16/28598|223 
092 0  364|bengelska 
100 1  Johnson, Kirk W.,|eauthor 
245 14 The feather thief :|bbeauty, obsession, and the natural 
       history heist of the century /|cKirk Wallace Johnson 
264  1 New York, New York :|bViking,|c[2018] 
300    x, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0  Prologue -- 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 ; Flowers in the bloodstream 
520    "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. 
       Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a 
       river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide 
       told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the 
       strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a 
       person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for 
       his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search
       for answers, Johnson was catapulted into a years-long, 
       worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre 
       and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of 
       justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating 
       exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct 
       to harvest the beauty of nature."--Page [2] of cover 
600 17 Rist, Edwin.|2caae 
610 27 Natural History Museum (London, England)|2fast 
650  0 Theft from museums|zGreat Britain|vCase studies 
650  0 Zoological specimens|zGreat Britain|vCase studies 
650  0 Fly tying|zGreat Britain|vCase studies 
650  7 Theft|zEngland|vCase studies.|2sears 
650  7 Birds|xCollection and preservation|zEngland.|2sears 
650  7 Thieves|zUnited States|vBiography.|2sears 
650  7 Fly tying.|2fast 
650  7 Theft from museums.|2fast 
650  7 Zoological specimens.|2fast 
650  7 Kriminalfall|2sao 
650  7 Stöld|2sao 
651  7 Great Britain 
655  7 Case studies.|2fast 
655  7 True crime stories.|2fast 
655  7 Sanna kriminalhistorier|2saogf 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aJohnson, Kirk W.|tFeather thief|dNew 
       York : Viking, [2018]|z9781101981627|w(DLC) 2018013958 
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