| Phys Descr |
308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-280 and [283]-289) and index |
| Summary |
On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice |
| Contents |
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 |
| Note |
USM: This book was purchased in honor of Dale Kuczinski in recognition of his retirement from the University of Southern Maine after over 43 years of dedicated service. |
| Subject |
Rist, Edwin
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Natural History Museum (London, England)
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Theft from museums -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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Zoological specimens -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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Fly tying -- Great Britain -- Case studies
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| OCLC # |
999407802 |
| ISBN # |
9781101981610 |
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110198161X |
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9780525559092 |
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0525559094 |
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