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S'està carregant… The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (2018 original; edició 2019)de Kirk Wallace Johnson (Autor)
Informació de l'obraThe Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century de Kirk Wallace Johnson (2018)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Not my cup of tea ( ) One of my favorite things to read in non-fiction is books about people obsessed with something and the subculture surrounding those obsessions (cook-offs, scrabble, thru-hiking, etc) in this case that obsession is with exotic feathers used in the hobby of making Victoria salmon fly lures. It’s weird, it’s interesting and I learned quite a bit about Victorian era explorers and naturalists. Highly recommend! it’s shocking to me that a crime like this could be so easily committed and the repercussions were really a huge surprise to me. I read this on kindle and need to seek out the physical book to better appreciate the photos of the birds and lures but I think google did lots to help me there. Fascinating and engrossingly told tale of a museum burglary for bird feathers. I might not have picked this up without hearing several glowing recommendations, and I'm glad I did. This held my attention the whole way through, from explorers collecting specimens hundreds of years ago to the very recent resurgence of salmon fly tying that has caused a demand for rare feathers. This is a quick and fun read. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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"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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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