The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace JohnsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
This tale of a fly-tyer flautist turned burglar made for compulsive reading as the author-cum-investigator took us from the outside to the inside of the modern forensic tale of eBay listings and Facebook groups and a cameo from one of my favorite sites: archive.org. Along the way there is the shocking history of frightful holocaust wrought on avian life and the insular, obsessive subculture of tiers maintaining a Victoria hobby.
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