Author: American Life Convention. Legal SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance law
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Life Convention
Author: American Life ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance, Life
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The Feather Thief
Author: Kirk Wallace JohnsonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101981628
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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.
Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting of the Legal Section of the American Life Convention
Author: American Life Convention. Legal SectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance law
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
Index of NLM Serial Titles
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1306
Book Description
A keyword listing of serial titles currently received by the National Library of Medicine.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
The Weekly Underwriter
Author: Alasco Delancey BrighamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
New Serial Titles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1776
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Classified List of 4800 Serials
Author: Dorothy Hale LitchfieldPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512803766
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A listing of periodicals, serials, and continuation publications subscribed to by four leading American educational institutions, arranged in thirty-one classified subjects, elaborately indexed and provided with cross-references.
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