![]() ![]() He was born in New York City and home-schooled, then at a fairly young age the family moved to the Hudson Valley. Give us a brief biography and explain how he became involved in the world of salmon fly-tying. At the heart of your book is a young American musician named Edwin Rist. When National Geographic caught up with him by phone in Washington, D.C., he explained how gentlemen fishermen in Victorian Britain created art while tying salmon flies how their modern-day equivalents are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on feathers to decorate their lures and how a cousin of the zany film character, Borat, became involved in the story. ![]() ![]() When Kirk Wallace Johnson, author of The Feather Thief, chanced on the story of how a young flute player named Edwin Rist had broken into the British Natural History Museum’s ornithological department and stolen hundreds of priceless exotic bird skins, he had no idea that he would be swept up into a world of fanatical fly-tyers, crime, and obsession that would completely take over his life. ![]()
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