The Bird Obsession That Led To "The Feather Thief"




The Jefferson Exchange show

Summary: When you think of a robbery at a museum, you probably picture a valuable painting, or some artifact from antiquity. But dead birds? It happened, at the Tring Museum in Greater London. A man obsessed with exotic bird feathers stole hundreds of old bird skins from the museum and disappeared. Enter the man obsessed with flyfishing, and we get a book: The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century . Author Kirk Wallace Johnson, the flyfisher, tracked the story and