The Feather Thief: The Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

The Feather Thief: The Natural History Heist of the Century

Kirk Wallace Johnson

297 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime informative mysterious medium-paced
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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...

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