How long does it take to read The Feather Thief?
Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Kirk Wallace Johnson
The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson takes about 6 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 10 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2018. 336 pages, about 92,400 words.
13 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 10 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
On a cool June evening in 2009, twenty-year-old American flautist Edwin Rist grabbed hundreds of bird skins - some collected 150 years earlier - and escaped into the darkness. Two years later, Kirk Wallace Johnson was consumed by the strange case of the feather thief. What would possess a person to steal dead birds? This is the gripping story of a bizarre and shocking crime, and one man's relentless pursuit of justice.
Subjects: NATURE / Animals / Birds, Theft from museums, Natural history museums, Natural History Museum (London, England), Zoological specimens, TRUE CRIME / General
