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There are no reviews yet. Be the first one to write a review. Community Collections. Perhaps not as disturbing as the loss of life or a brutal rape or abuse, but still a story of devastating loss An online forum recently posted a list of true crime without murder or violence.
Perhaps not as disturbing as the loss of life or a brutal rape or abuse, but still a story of devastating loss. I could not summarize what this book is about better than this quote from author, Kirk Wallace Johnson. In the above quote Johnson refers to his work with refugees, this being his way of righting a wrong he saw first hand in his job reconstructing the Iraqi city of Fallujah. While recovering he launched a non-profit to help the refugees but when he needed a break it was trout fishing that provided relaxation.
This one brief conversation soon became an obsession with Johnson to find out the true story, what really happened during the robbery at Tring where drawers of bird specimens came to be stored during World War II, in the mansion of Lord Walter Rothschild.
What motivated Rist an American talented musician and fly-tier to commit this crime? The outcome, the finished book, proved to be all that I love in narrative non-fiction. It is a detailed exploration of not only the history of the intricacy and craft of ties and their creators but also the background of the birds, their role in evolution, the beauty of their plumes which were used for fashion almost to the extinction of some species imagine a shawl made from 8, Hummingbird skins and the quest to ensure their continued existence.
My craving for adventure came in the story of Alfred Russell Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin, whose first expedition to collect specimens in exotic places ended with all being lost in a ship fire.
Eight more years of perseverance netted Wallace many species including 8, birds which were sold to the British Museum. Extensive research and the interweaving of these themes by Johnson kept The Feather Thief from being mundane, instead it was thrillingly captivating.
It is bound to be one of my favorite books not only of but of all time. I only wish there had been more photos of the birds whose feathers were a primary picture of the story. The many birding guides on my shelf satisfied my thirst for the splendor of these magnificent creatures.
View all 24 comments. The Feather Thief is a delightful read that successfully combines many genres — biography, true crime, ornithology, history, travel and memoir — to tell the story of an audacious heist of rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring in Somehow I managed not to hear about it at the time, but it was huge news in terms of museum collections and endangered species crime. The tendrils of this thorny case wind around Victorian explorers, tycoons, and fashionistas through to modern ob The Feather Thief is a delightful read that successfully combines many genres — biography, true crime, ornithology, history, travel and memoir — to tell the story of an audacious heist of rare bird skins from the Natural History Museum at Tring in The tendrils of this thorny case wind around Victorian explorers, tycoons, and fashionistas through to modern obsessions with music, fly-fishing and refugees.
Plagued by PTSD, he turned to fly-fishing as therapy, and this was how he heard about the curious case of Edwin Rist, who stole the bird specimens from Tring to sell the bright feathers to fellow hobbyists who tie elaborate Victorian-style fishing flies.
A year later he took the train to Tring one summer night with an empty suitcase and a glass cutter, broke in through a window, stole bird skins, and made it back to his flat without incident. The museum only discovered the crime a month later, by accident. Rist sold many feathers and whole birds via a fly-tying forum and on eBay. It was nearly another year and a half before the police knocked on his door, having been alerted by a former law enforcement officer who encountered a museum-grade bird skin at the Dutch Fly Fair and asked where it came from.
Here is where things get really interesting, at least for me. He started by attending a fly-tying symposium, where he felt like an outsider and even received vague threats: Rist was now a no-go subject for this community. Sixty-four bird skins were still missing, and his quest was to track them down. Far from it. This is the very best sort of nonfiction: wide-ranging, intelligent and gripping. Originally published, with images, on my blog, Bookish Beck.
View all 6 comments. Deciding to read The Feather Thief should really come down to how much you want to know about birds. Birds are animals I'm perfectly willing to appreciate at a distance but, barring a series of childhood budgies, they've never been my particular thing. All the same, I've got mad respect for Darwin, Wallace, and their culture-rupturing scientific discovery made possible by tropical birds, so I thought this book would be up my alley.
The bad thing about this audiobook is that the first half seemed Deciding to read The Feather Thief should really come down to how much you want to know about birds.
The bad thing about this audiobook is that the first half seemed endlessly dull to me. I found myself trying the limits of my aural capacity, speeding up the narrator's voice to a comical clip as he talked about the history of bird collections and the fly-tying community. Some of the history was alright, but the chain of custody for Wallace's birds put me into a despondent state that was only deepened by the fly-tiers: I just didn't get it.
What's more, when I wasn't sold on the fly-tying, I couldn't get into Edwin Rist's obsession with the archaic practice that drove him to steal a suitcase full of birds. Luckily, by a little over the halfway mark, Kirk W. Johnson begins to lay out his own obsession with the case of stolen bird feathers and heads out on what ends up being a pretty exciting investigation. Even though I was often bored for the first half, I ended up being compelled by what turned out to be a less obvious crime than I'd initially assumed.
Indeed, the later chapters when Johnson begins to interview the fly-tying community, hunt down the lost feathers, and struggle to balance his personal life with the hunt for justice amount to a story that reminded me a bit of the podcast Serial.
I don't know that I can give this a ringing endorsement, after all I almost considered giving up and moving on through most of the book. What I can offer is a suggestion: pick this one up if you have an interest in birds, but dodge it if you are coming for a true-crime thriller alone.
View all 7 comments. Haven't read something so engrossing all year. What a fascinating and exciting book! May 01, J. FLY: "A fishhook dressed as with feathers or tinsel to suggest an insect. The author Kirk Johnson was fly fishing with a friend several years ago when he learned the fascinating and bizarre story of a young American man named Edwin Rist.
At the age of 20, Edwin broke into the British Museum of Natural History's ornithological building and stole rare bird specimens skins.
Many of these birds had been collected by the famous natural FLY: "A fishhook dressed as with feathers or tinsel to suggest an insect. Many of these birds had been collected by the famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin.
Edwin was a music student in England and was an accomplished flautist, with a bright future ahead of him playing professionally in Berlin upon graduation.
Why on earth would a gifted flute player commit such an odd crime as specimen theft from a museum? I knew of course about trout flies used for fishing, and how they are tied and crafted with materials to resemble various kinds of insects. However, I had never heard of the art of Victorian Salmon Fly tying. This type of fly tying is really seen as an intricate art form, and most salmon fly tiers do not even fish.
And while trout flies are quite small, Salmon flies are much larger and when completed can sell for hundreds or even thousands of dollars. There is also a great salmon fly tiers fraternity featuring shows and competitions.
At an early age, Edwin Rist was not only obsessed with becoming a master flautist, but also becoming the greatest salmon fly tier in the world. Both he and his brother Anton had discovered this hobby as boys, were given lessons, and worked voraciously to perfect their craft. Of course the main component of salmon fly tying is bird feathers. And historically, not just any old feathers will do.
The earliest salmon fly tiers used feathers form the Birds of Paradise, the Resplendent Quetzel, the Blue Chatterer, and the Indian Crow among many others. Flash forward to the 21st century when salmon fly tying was still popular, but it was very difficult to obtain exotic bird skins. Naturally, many tiers substituted more common species, or used dyed feathers from domestic fowl. But there was still an open market to buy the feathers of rarer birds, and packets of Indian Crow or Blue Chatterer feathers could sell for hundreds of dollars on the internet.
So, in his obsession to possess the finest bird skins in the world, Edwin Rist visited the Tring museum north of London and began devising a plan to steal rare bird skins for himself, as well as to sell to others. At the time, Edwin had worked very hard to indeed become one of the greatest fly tiers in the world. Would his plan be successful, or an ultimate failure? What a mesmerizing and absorbing story. I look forward to the next book by Kirk Wallace Johnson.
View all 21 comments. What an adventure centered around the dedication of the author to try to rectify a theft from the Natural History Museum in Tring England. The thief had an obsession with obtaining rare bird feathers for making fishing lures, but not necessarily to fish with. Apparently there is a group of people who will pay tons of money for the rarest of bird feathers to create these lures despite the fact that these birds are killed for this very purpose.
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