![]() ![]() Alfred Russel Wallace, and an account of the whole 'feather and bird skin culture', both among scientists of the 1800s. ![]() He is also the founder of the List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies. Home » Reviews » Book review: The Feather Thief. His third book, The Fishermen and the Dragon: Two Dreams at War off the Texas Coast will be published in 2021. Kirk Wallace Johnson is the author of non-fiction and his writing has been in The New Yorker, New York Times, and more. An engrossing and bizarre true story about the lure of feathers and the tragic depths collectors will sink to. ![]() “ Alfred Russel Wallace stood on the quarterdeck of a burning ship, seven hundred miles off the coast of Bermuda, the planks heating beneath his fee, yellow smoke curling up through the cracks.” – first lineĭocuments the astonishing 2009 theft of an invaluable collection of ornithological displays from the British Museum of Natural History by a talented American musician, tracing the author’s years-long investigation to track down the culprit and understand his motives, which were possibly linked to an obsession with the Victorian art of salmon fly-tying. A story of the most unusual theft, by the most unlikely of characters, with a somewhat. ![]() The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson May I introduce to you, The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson. ![]()
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