The Fine Feathers
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Publisher | : Media Fusion India Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 13 |
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ISBN | : 818300623X |
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Publisher | : Media Fusion India Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 13 |
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Author | : Kirk Wallace Johnson |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-04-24 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1101981628 |
As heard on NPR's This American Life “Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s Fresh Air “One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever.” —Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime adventure and a captivating journey into an underground world of fanatical fly-tiers and plume peddlers, for readers of The Stranger in the Woods, The Lost City of Z, and The Orchid Thief. On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist boarded a train 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 Victorian 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 everything to gather them—and escaped into the darkness. Two 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 strange 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-long, worldwide investigation. The gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice, The Feather Thief is also a fascinating exploration of obsession, and man's destructive instinct to harvest the beauty of nature.
Author | : Jane Kim |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018-10-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0062687875 |
A celebration of the diversity and evolution of birds, as depicted in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's magnificent 2,500-square-foot Wall of Birds mural by artist Jane Kim. Part homage, part artistic and sociological journey, The Wall of Birds tells the story of birds' remarkable 375-million-year evolution. With a foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and full of lush photographs of gorgeous life-size birds painted in exacting detail, The Wall of Birds lets readers explore these amazing creatures family by family and continent by continent. Throughout, beautifully crafted narratives and intimate artistic reflections tell of the evolutionary forces that created birds' dazzling variety of forms and colors, and reveal powerful lessons about birds that are surprisingly relevant to contemporary human challenges. From the tiny five-inch Marvelous Spatuletail hummingbird to the monstrous thirty-foot Yutyrannus, The Wall of Birds is a visual feast, essential for bird enthusiasts, naturalists, and art lovers alike.
Author | : Marianne Fons |
Publisher | : C & T Pub |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780914881100 |
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Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 197? |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Rachel Noble |
Publisher | : Enchanted Lion Books |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2018-05-29 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781592702749 |
When Finn finds a feather he believes was sent by his deceased brother, Hamish, his mother and teacher are not excited but his friend Lucas helps him find great joy in Hamish's gift.
Author | : Narelle Oliver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Animal defenses |
ISBN | : 9781862918078 |
Lyrebird, Coucal, Pitta and Nightjar are birds of the forest floor. Although as different as it is possible to be, they always look out for danger and warn each other to hide. One day, Lyrebird, Coucal and Pitta forget to look out for Fox. Only Nightjar is watching. Can he warn the others in time?
Author | : Nancy Parent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Christmas stories |
ISBN | : 9781576575550 |
Author | : Lois Ehlert |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0152009868 |
An escaped housecat encounters twelve birds in the back yard but fails to catch any of them and has to eat feathers for lunch.
Author | : William Le Queux |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1924 |
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