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100 1 $aSmith, Jennie Erin,$d1973-
245 10 $aStolen world :$ba tale of reptiles, smugglers, and skulduggery /$cJennie Erin Smith.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCrown Publishers,$c℗♭2011.
300 $a322 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 321-322).
505 0 $apt. 1. The kraftsman -- I fly around the world -- Willow Grove -- Pine Barrens -- O'Kane and Mellon fly around the world -- The kingpin -- pt. 2. Tom Terrific -- I search for adventure -- Golden pythons -- Herpetological Research Associates of Papua New Guinea -- Fijis -- Colette -- Conservation thru commercialization -- Waffle House days -- United States v. Tommy Edward Crutchfield, et al. -- Chambers not so distant -- Sanzinia -- Belize -- pt. 3. Dr. Wong -- Anson and friends -- Whatever happened to the plowshare tortoises? -- pt. 4. Old age and treachery -- The hurricane -- Curse of the Bitis parviocula -- The partial rehabilitation of Tom Crutchfield -- The blue-rattled rattler -- Parviocula venom -- Epilogue.
520 $a"Tortoises disappear from a Madagascar reserve and reappear in the Bronx Zoo. A dead iguana floats in a jar, awaiting its unveiling in a Florida court. A viper causes mayhem from Ethiopia to Virginia. In Stolen World, Jennie Erin Smith takes the reader on an unforgettable journey, a dark adventure over five decades and six continents. In 1965, Hank Molt, a young cheese salesman from Philadelphia, reinvented himself as a "specialist dealer in rare fauna," traveling the world to collect exquisite reptiles for zoos and museums. By the end of the decade that followed, new endangered species laws had turned Molt into a convicted smuggler, and an unrepentant one, who went on to provide many of the same rare reptiles to many of the same institutions, covertly. But Molt soon found a rival in Tommy Crutchfield, a Florida carpet salesman with every intention of usurping Molt as the most accomplished reptile smuggler in the country. Like Molt, Crutchfield had modeled himself after an earlier generation of natural-history collectors celebrated for their service to science, an ideal that, for Molt and Crutchfield, eclipsed the realities of the new wildlife-protection laws. Zoo curators, caught between a desire for rare animals and the conservation-minded focus of their institutions, became the smugglers' antagonists in court but also their best customers, sometimes simultaneously. Crutchfield forged ties with a criminally inclined Malaysian wildlife trader and emerged a millionaire, beloved by zoos. Molt, following a string of inventive but disastrous smuggling schemes in New Guinea, was reduced to hanging around Crutchfield's Florida compound, plotting Crutchfield's demise. The fallout from their feud would result in a major federal investigation with tentacles in Germany, Madagascar, Holland, and Malaysia. And yet even after prison, personal ruin, and the depredations of age, Molt and Crutchfield never stopped scheming, never stopped longing for the snake or lizard that would earn each his rightful place in a world that had forgotten them--or rather, had never recognized them to begin with."--Jacket.
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