The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson recounts the bizarre June 2009 overnight heist in which twenty-year-old American flute prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the Natural History Museum at Tring and stole 299 irreplaceable Victorian bird specimens. The book blends natural history, obsessive fly-tying subculture and genuine crime to produce a wholly unexpected and thoroughly absorbing true-crime narrative.

ISBN 9781432853174 · Hutchinson · 2018