Fine and Fussy Feathers
Author : Mattie Mabel Chalfin
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Birds in literature
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Author : Mattie Mabel Chalfin
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Birds in literature
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Author : Alpha Chi Omega
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 1927
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Author : Kirk Wallace Johnson
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 2018-04-24
Category : 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.
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Publisher :
Page : 1370 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 1926
Category : American literature
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Author : Deborah A. Wolf
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1785654497
A young woman sets off for the Last Frontier, seeking her long-lost family—and the truth behind her paranormal visions—in this thrilling urban fantasy steeped in Alaskan legend Siggy Aleksov sees demons and talks with creatures she knows aren’t really there. Taken from her family as a child, she is dogged by memories of abandonment, abuse, and mental health issues. Siggy suffers from a hot temper, cluster headaches, caffeine addiction, and terminal foul language. She complicates her life even more when she saves the life of a talented assassin sent to kill her. Deciding to get the hell out of Dodge, Siggy travels to the Alaska bush to find out who she really is. The answer is more fantastic that she could have imagined—and she can imagine a lot.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2144 pages
File Size : 25,66 MB
Release : 1927
Category : American drama
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Part 1, Books, Group 1, v. 23 : Nos. 1-128 (Issued April, 1926 - March, 1927)
Author : California State Library
Publisher :
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Libraries
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Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Author : bruce meder
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 32,58 MB
Release : 2017-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0244032181
Birds and feathers are symbolic in most cultures of the world. The dove has symbolised peace, the phoenix is associated with regeneration or rebirth. Birds are often seen as messengers, indeed, pigeons have been used for this very purpose. Feathers have been, and still are, used to adorn ourselves. Think, too, of some of our common phrases: birds of a feather flock together, a feather in your cap, as light as a feather, feather-brained, you could have knocked me down with a feather, feather your nest. Feathers are ubiquitous. This collection of 33 short stories each includes references to feathers. In each story the word feather is from a different language. The stories celebrate our diversity and our commonality. They were written as a challenge over a period of 33 days.
Author : Edgar Joseph Hinkel
Publisher :
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 17,31 MB
Release : 1938
Category : American literature
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Author : Matthew D. Shawkey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Bacillus (Bacteria)
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