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"Fascinating from the first page to the last—you won't be able to put it down." —Southern Living
A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief.
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.
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Founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies.
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一部20万字的报告文学，既是一部探险笔记，又是一部心路历程，既是要展现自我的救赎，又是要大声疾呼如何拯救这个世界，作者不断地挖掘整理出故纸堆里隐藏的血泪，不断地去搜寻、直面、算计、痛击那些隐藏秘密的人，用抖音的上瘾模式，在吸引你不断上翻、上翻……的过程中，带...
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评分The writing is very engaging, I couldn't stop reading, though at the same time, I was so disgusted by the the history of humans pursuing feathers, the crime itself and its aftermath, it was really hard for me to read on at times. I'm glad I didn't give it up because i could hardly stomach it.
评分The writing is very engaging, I couldn't stop reading, though at the same time, I was so disgusted by the the history of humans pursuing feathers, the crime itself and its aftermath, it was really hard for me to read on at times. I'm glad I didn't give it up because i could hardly stomach it.
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评分通过读这本书对蝇饵制作爱好者有了一点了解
评分The writing is very engaging, I couldn't stop reading, though at the same time, I was so disgusted by the the history of humans pursuing feathers, the crime itself and its aftermath, it was really hard for me to read on at times. I'm glad I didn't give it up because i could hardly stomach it.
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