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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). This is also where Johnson starts talking about the cost of the theft to the Museum and to science. Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret.