The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird
Author(s): Joshua Hammer
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national names Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airpost with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales.
So begins a tale almost too bizarre to believe, following the parallel lives of Detective Andy McWilliam of the United Kingdom's National Wildlife Crime Unit and a globe-trotting smuggler.
The Falcon Thief whisks readers from the volcanoes of Patagonia to Zimbabwe's Matobo National Park and from a frigid tundra to the deserts of Dubai, all in pursuit of a reckless man gripped by a destructive compulsion to make the most beautiful creatures in nature his own.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Simon & Schuster
- : Pocket Books
- : 0.265352
- : 31 December 2020
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Special Fields
- : Joshua Hammer
- : 336
- : 364.1628598961468092
- : English
- : 2104
- : Paperback