The Butterfly Thief - Marsh, Walter
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The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums--and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got away with it--in a scientific true-crime caper stretching around the globe. In January 1947, a chance discovery rocked the world of natural science: over 3,000 rare and precious specimens of butterflies had vanished from Australia's most prestigious museums in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Alarmingly, the missing insects included many priceless "holotypes"--the first specimen of a given species to be identified, against which all others are…mehr

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The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums--and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got away with it--in a scientific true-crime caper stretching around the globe. In January 1947, a chance discovery rocked the world of natural science: over 3,000 rare and precious specimens of butterflies had vanished from Australia's most prestigious museums in Sydney, Melbourne, and Adelaide. Alarmingly, the missing insects included many priceless "holotypes"--the first specimen of a given species to be identified, against which all others are compared. On the other side of the world, New Scotland Yard descended on a country house in Surrey, where they found a trove of over 40,000 butterfly specimens. The culprit was Colin Wyatt, a Cambridge-educated ski champion, mountaineer, wartime camouflager, artist, and amateur naturalist whose high-flying exploits cut a path from the Alps of Europe to a London court room to a final expedition to the jungles of Guatemala. Drawing on unpublished case files, dossiers, and private archives, The Butterfly Thief pieces together Wyatt's enigmatic life story and his decades-long impact on the world of natural history. Along the way, award-winning journalist Walter Marsh reveals a deeper history of gentleman explorers, scoundrels, and grave-robbers that begs an uncomfortable but vital question: What if Western museums were crime scenes all along?
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Autorenporträt
Walter Marsh is a journalist based in Tarntanya/Adelaide with a background in history and culture. A former editor and staff writer at The Adelaide Review and Rip It Up, his writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Monthly , The Saturday Paper, and InDaily. He is also the author of Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire (Scribe 2023).