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The Feather Thief: The Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
6 reviews
unluckycat13's review against another edition
This book overall feels very unexamined. Many things are taken at face value, and often presented in a romanticized light. The author comes off as a bit of a yuppie type. I'm simply not shocked or intrigued by the things he is.
There are moderately severe descriptions of what really amount to animal torture and neglect as well. I keept trying to give it a chance, but I think I'm done.
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Ableism, Racism, War, Colonisation, and Xenophobia
librarymouse's review against another edition
4.5
Edwin Rist, and his peers in fly making are heinous in their disregard for the sanctity of the scientific and historical record. Their lack of remorse deserves far more punishment than any have received.
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, and Trafficking
spookily's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Colonisation, and Ableism
Moderate: Death, Islamophobia, and Toxic friendship
Minor: Alcohol, Deportation, Blood, Cancer, Cursing, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, War, and Xenophobia
dominicangirl's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Minor: Colonisation
aezlo's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Colonisation and Mental illness
thechadow's review against another edition
2.75
The author, an American researching a crime committed in the United Kingdom, is incapable of imagining restorative justice, and is focused exclusively on punitive measures. Part 3 is really filled with the American & colonialist ideal of exporting one's own beliefs onto a situation which does not involve oneself.
During an interview he conducted, the author quotes himself in the book as having said: "Emotionally, wouldn't [jail time & withholding the suspect's degree] have been somewhat satisfying?"
No. It wouldn't be.
Minor: Colonisation and Mental illness