Crime and beauty
Accompanying the text are photographs of the birds whose gorgeous plumage leads humans astray
by Manjula Padmanabhan
Jun 22, 2018
2 minutes
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Author Kirk Wallace Johnson's prose glitters like the tropical bird feathers he describes in this story of a 20-year-old American flautist's theft of some $250,000 worth of bird skins. One of the summer's most talked about books in the US, the tale is rich
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