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The Book Show #1557 - Kirk Wallace Johnson

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published May 22, 2018 at 3:00 PM EDT
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Marie-Josee Cantin Johnson

Kirk Wallace Johnson’s new book, “The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession and the Natural History Heist of the Century,” is a true story which explores the 2009 theft of rare Victorian-era bird feathers from a British museum by American music student Edwin Rist who was obsessed with using the feathers for exotic fishing lures.

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