Audiobook The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson in the ListenBook app
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"An uncommon book . . . [that] informs and enlightens. . . A heist story that manages to underline the enduring and continuing importance of natural history collections and their incredible value to science. We need more books like this one." -Science"The best compliment I can give a nonfiction writer is that they make me care deeply about an obscure topic I would otherwise never have been interested in. That's the case with Kirk Wallace Johnson's The Feather Thief." -Eva Holland, Outside, "The Best Summer Books""A fascinating account of a bizarre crime . . . The Feather Thief is one of the more peculiar and gripping crime stories in recent memory." -LitHub CrimeReads, "The Essential True Crime Books of Spring 2018" "Johnson succeeds in conveying the gravity of this natural-history 'heist of the century,' and one of The Feather Thief's greatest strengths is the excitement, horror, and amazement it evokes. It's nonfiction that reads like fiction, with plenty of surprising moments." -Outside "A riveting read." -Nature "A literary police sketch-part natural history yarn, part detective story, part the stuff of tragedy." -Smithsonian"Within pages I was hooked. This is a weird and wonderful book . . . Johnson is a master of pacing and suspense . . . It's a tribute to [his] storytelling gifts that when I turned the last page I felt bereft." -Maggie Fergusson, The Spectator (London)"A riveting story about mankind's undeniable desire to own nature's beauty and a spellbinding examination of obsession, greed, and justice . . .[told] in engrossing detail. . . . A gripping page-turner." -Bustle"Enthralling." -HelloGiggles"Richly informative, with handy illustrations, endlessly fascinating and crackingly entertaining, The Feather Thief is the kind of true-crime narrative that gives Erik Larson's much-lauded The Devil in the White City a run for the money." -Shelf Awareness"Highly entertaining . . . journalism at its best . . . If you know nothing about fly-fishing or tying, it doesn't matter, as long as you like a well-written story." -Karen Gallagher, The Baltimore Sun's Roughly Speaking podcast"Reads like a whodunit . . . I could not put it down."-Tom Rosenbauer, The Orvis Fly Fishing Guide Podcast"This is the type of book I absolutely love - one that takes a seemingly obscure topic and shines a brilliant and bizarre and endlessly fascinating light upon it. The crime itself is riveting, but Kirk Wallace Johnson's portrayal of the crazy world of feather fanatics makes this an unforgettable read."-Michael Finkel, author of The Stranger in the Woods"Captivating...Everything the author touches in this thoroughly engaging true-crime tale turns to storytelling gold. . . . Johnson's flair for telling an engrossing story is, like the beautiful birds he describes, exquisite. . . . A superb tale about obsession, nature, and man's 'unrelenting desire to lay claim to its beauty, whatever the cost.'"-Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review"[An] enthralling account of a truly bizarre crime. . . . Johnson goes deep into the exotic bird and feather trade and concludes that though obsession and greed know no bounds, they certainly make for a fascinating tale. The result is a page-turner that will likely appeal to science, history, and true crime readers." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"A remarkably compelling story of obsession and history." -Booklist, Starred Review"You'll never look at a feather the same way again after reading this riveting detective story . . . [The Feather Thief] brilliantly weaves together Alfred Russel Wallace, the surprisingly shadowy history of fly fishing, conservation and the plumage of the most beautiful birds on earth." -The Bookseller (UK) "A true-crime tale that weaves seemingly unrelated threads-a museum break-in; the development of evolutionary theory; a case of post-Iraq PTSD; endangered birds; and (above all) the murky underworld of fly-tying obsessives-into a spellbinding narrative tapestry." -Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu "A captivating tale of an unlikely thief and his even more unlikely crime, and a meditation on obsession, greed, and the sheer fascination in something as seemingly simple as a feather."-Paul Collins, author of The Murder of the Century"A stirring examination of the devastating effects of human greed on endangered birds, a powerful argument for protecting our environment-and, above all, a captivating crime story."-Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees"This gem of a book, about a heist of archival birds, is marvelous, moving, and transcendent. I can't stop thinking about it." -Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara and The Feud"This extraordinary book exposes an international underground that traffics in rare and precious natural resources, yet was previously unknown to all but a few. A page-turning read you won't soon forget, The Feather Thief tells us as much about our cultural priorities as it does about the crimes themselves. There's never been anything like it." -Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of The Hidden Life of Dogs jQuery(function() { jQuery( "#tabs" ).tabs(); });
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