I didn’t know about this subculture, I didn’t know about Victorian history or the value of these birds. Kirk Wallace Johnson: The truth is that this story was so strange and unlike anything I’d seen before - I didn’t know anything about any of this. Johnson takes his readers on a journey through the night of the crime, its aftermath and, most significantly, the hundreds of years of human trends and prior behavior that created the environment for the crime’s existence. 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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