The feather thief : beauty, obsession and the natural history heist of the century

"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,...

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Main Author: Johnson, Kirk W.
Format: LARGE TYPE
Language:ENGLISH
Published: Gale 2018
Series:Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction
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