We read Kirk Wallace Johnson's "The Feather Thief" for this inaugural episode of the Beaver State Podcast Book Club, and we really enjoyed it. It's a fantastic crime story, a first-rate science explainer about the Age of Exploitation and peek behind the curtains of a small group of fly tyers who collect exceedingly rare feathers. This first Book Club podcast episode features fly fishing author and historian John Shewey and biologist Emily Weidner, who recommended the book and inadvertently influenced us to start a book club.

 

From top left - John Shewey, Emily Weidner and host Tim Akimoff

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Previous Episodes featuring John Shewey - https://myodfw.com/articles/beaver-state-podcast-episode-81-steelhead-fly-fishing-history-john-shewey

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