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May 3, 2010 · The Falcon Thief — subtitled A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird —charts the life, times and crimes of a convicted wildlife thief who worked across three continents, as well as telling the story of the British policeman who was instrumental in securing a conviction. It’s part police procedural, natural history treatise and true crime tale, and it reads ...
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- Joshua Hammer
Feb 11, 2020 · The Falcon Thief is more than just a ripping page turner; it is a cautionary tale about what happens when our most precious wildlife becomes status symbol in our diminishing natural world.” — Carl Hoffman, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Wild Men of Borneo and Savage Harvest “You don’t need to know, or care, about birds to enjoy The Falcon Thief.
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Feb 11, 2020 · THE FALCON THIEF A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird By Joshua Hammer 317 pp. Simon & Schuster. $26. A version of this article appears in print on ...
- Suzanne Joinson
Feb 11, 2020 · Throughout, the author beautifully renders this tale “of human obsession and nature’s fragility, of man’s perpetual insistence on imposing his will upon the wildness of our world, and of the tiny handful of investigators, most unrecognized, working to safeguard the environment’s bounty and wonder.”. A sleek, winning nonfiction thriller.
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Feb 11, 2020 · The Falcon Thief whisks readers from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own. It’s a story that’s part true-crime narrative ...
- 1501191888, 9781501191886
- Joshua Hammer
- Simon and Schuster, 2020
Feb 16, 2021 · “Masterfully constructed” (The New York Times) and “entertaining and illuminating” (The Washington Post), The Falcon Thief will whisk you away from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe’s Matobo National Park, and from the frigid tundra near the Arctic Circle to luxurious aviaries in the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a man who is reckless, arrogant, and gripped by a ...
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