BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//indianafreelibrary.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10 // CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:1e444244-458c-4096-b4f9-437ce188a860 X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nThe Feather Thief: Beauty\, Obsession\ , and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (30 8 pages)\n\nA rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking expl oration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The St ranger in the Woods\, The Lost City of Z\, and The Orchid Thief.\n\nOn a c ool June evening in 2009\, after performing a concert at London’s Royal Ac ademy of Music\, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a tr ain for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home to one of the largest ornithological collections in the world\, the Tring museum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth staggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin’s obsession: the V ictorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum\, the champion fl y-tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins–some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin’s\, Alfred Russel Wallace\, who’d risked everythi ng to gather them–and escaped into the darkness.\n\nTwo years later\, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the s trange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dea d birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missin g skins? In his search for answers\, Johnson was catapulted into a years-l ong\, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shockin g crime\, and one man’s relentless pursuit of justice\, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession\, and man’s destructive ins tinct to harvest the beauty of nature.\n X-WR-RELCALID:b9d9f5de4918d8c53a6d56f8ec9d4d36 X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20251102T020000 RDATE:20261101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20260308T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e0c30b0b-2c0e-40bf-a70c-eb8f36844d4f DTSTAMP:20260409T013319Z DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nThe Feather Thief: Beauty\, Obsession\, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson (308 pages)\n\nA rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking explo ration of the human drive to possess natural beauty for readers of The Str anger in the Woods\, The Lost City of Z\, and The Orchid Thief.\n\nOn a co ol June evening in 2009\, after performing a concert at London’s Royal Aca demy of Music\, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a tra in for a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History. Home t o one of the largest ornithological collections in the world\, the Tring m useum was full of rare bird specimens whose gorgeous feathers were worth s taggering amounts of money to the men who shared Edwin’s obsession: the Vi ctorian art of salmon fly-tying. Once inside the museum\, the champion fly -tier grabbed hundreds of bird skins–some collected 150 years earlier by a contemporary of Darwin’s\, Alfred Russel Wallace\, who’d risked everythin g to gather them–and escaped into the darkness.\n\nTwo years later\, Kirk Wallace Johnson was waist high in a river in northern New Mexico when his fly-fishing guide told him about the heist. He was soon consumed by the st range case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? Had Edwin paid the price for his crime? What became of the missing skins? In his search for answers\, Johnson was catapulted into a years-lo ng\, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime\, and one man’s relentless pursuit of justice\, The Feather Thief i s also a fascinating exploration of obsession\, and man’s destructive inst inct to harvest the beauty of nature.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250805T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: The Feather Thief: Beauty\, Obsession\, and t he Natural History Heist of the Century END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR