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Book review the feather thief6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Darwin, upon receiving it, panicked, and moved quickly to get his own writings in order, in order to simultaneously present his work and Wallace’s letter to the Royal Society. When he discovered that the thief evaded prison, and that half the birds were never recovered, Johnson embarked upon a years-long worldwide investigation which. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century Hardcover 2,156 ratings 4.0 on Goodreads 24,042 ratings Editors pick Best Nonfiction See all formats and editions Kindle 13.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 13.00 7 Used from 11.68 1 New from 274. It was here, laid low by one of many attacks of malaria, that Wallace dreamed up the theory of evolution by means of natural selection, and – when sufficiently able – wrote it up in a letter and sent it off to Charles Darwin, whom Wallace greatly admired. A great many of the skins, including Birds-of-Paradise, had been collected by Alfred Russel Wallace during his explorations through what was then called the Malay Archipelago. ![]() Walter Rothschild had spent a fortune amassing the largest private collections of bird skins and other natural history specimens the world has ever seen. ![]() This collection was located in Tring, a suburb of London, and had begun with 280,000 skins sold to the museum by the Rothschild family in 1931. In June, 2009, American music student Edwin Rist broke into the ornithological collection of the British Museum of Natural History and stole hundreds of bird skins worth over one-half-million dollars. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the CenturyĢ54 pages plus 35 pages of notes and 16 pages of photographs. The Feather Thief is one of the more peculiar and gripping crime stories in recent memory. ![]()
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