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The feather thief book6/25/2023 ![]() The bird specimens had been gathered 150 years prior by Alfred Russel Wallace, a self-taught naturalist and colleague of Charles Darwin’s who dedicated his life to the research. In his suitcase, Rist carries away hundreds of extremely rare bird specimens and feathers to sell on the blackmarket of salmon fly-tying. ![]() Johnson’s sophomore book, released in 2018, is “The Feather Thief,” a true-crime adventure that begins when 20-year-old flautist Edwin Rist quietly glass-cuts his way into the Tring Museum, an outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. STEAMBOAT SPRINGS - On Wednesday, June 26, Bud Werner Memorial Library’s Library Author Series presents Kirk Wallace Johnson. Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of “The Feather Thief,” speaks at the Bud Werner Memorial Library’s Library Author Series on Wednesday, June 26. ![]()
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