{"id":7466,"date":"2018-10-12T09:54:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=7466"},"modified":"2018-10-12T09:54:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T15:54:26","slug":"unwind-the-mind-with-the-feather-thief-featured-book-for-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2018\/10\/12\/unwind-the-mind-with-the-feather-thief-featured-book-for-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwind the Mind with The Feather Thief, Featured Book for October"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Feather<\/a>The Feather Thief<\/em> tells the strange but true story of how hundreds of rare bird skins and feathers – many collected during the 19th century – were stolen in 2009 from the Tring Museum, a suburban outpost of the British Museum of Natural History.\u00a0 The thief, 20 year old Edwin Rist, was an accomplished musician who had become involved with the craft of Victorian fly-tying: creating fishing lures that use feathers as their raw materials.\u00a0 Rist had developed a network of buyers for rare and exotic feathers, called ‘The Feather Underground,’ and hoped to make a bundle on the sale of these stolen feathers.<\/p>\n

This compelling crime story will teach you more than you ever thought you wanted to know about the underground world of exotic feathers.<\/p>\n

Find reviews of\u00a0The Feather Thief,<\/em>\u00a0and interviews with the author below:<\/p>\n