具體描述
"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.
著者簡介
Founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies.
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讀後感
《遇见天堂鸟》作为一本非虚构文学，却呈现了比虚构还要魔幻的世界。作者以抽丝剥茧的细致，揭开了一段永远无法说明是非的过往。中文译名颇具迷惑性（我一度以为此书是介绍濒危鸟类的被发现与被毁灭）。如果拆下中文外壳，The Feather Thief，这个标题一定会让你恍然大悟却又陷...
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評分几年前，彭浩翔导演的电影《撒娇女人最好命》里有一句话曾经风靡全国。 隋棠带着台湾嗲嗲音说的那句话“兔兔这么可爱，你怎么可以吃兔兔？”想必很多人都耳熟能详，而且觉得很戏谑很无厘头。 而如果说上面吃兔兔还是戏谑层面不引人深思的话，那陆川2004年导演的《可可西里》则...
評分《遇见天堂鸟》作为一本非虚构文学，却呈现了比虚构还要魔幻的世界。作者以抽丝剥茧的细致，揭开了一段永远无法说明是非的过往。中文译名颇具迷惑性（我一度以为此书是介绍濒危鸟类的被发现与被毁灭）。如果拆下中文外壳，The Feather Thief，这个标题一定会让你恍然大悟却又陷...
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用戶評價
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.
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.
评分通過讀這本書對蠅餌製作愛好者有瞭一點瞭解
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