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\nThe Feat her Thief - On a cool June evening in 2009\, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music\, 20-year-old American flautist Edwin Ris t boarded a train for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the worl d\, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathe rs were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin's ob session: the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum\, t he champion fly-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins&mdash\;some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin's\, Alfred Russel Wallace\, who'd risked everything to gather them&mdash\;and escaped into the darknes s.
\nTwo years later\, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a rive r in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the hei st. He was soon consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What wo uld 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\, John son was catapulted into a years-long\, worldwide investigation. The grippi ng story of a bizarre and shocking crime\, and one man's relentless pursui t of justice\, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obse ssion\, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
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