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(0)Kirk W Johnson
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster-a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement, and one woman's relentless battle for environmental justice. By the late 1970s, the fishermen of the Texas Gulf Coast were struggling. The bays that had sustained generations of shrimpers and crabbers...
