Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty

5 best books like Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers, and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty (Craig Welch): The Book of Speculation, Lent, The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis, Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

The Book of Speculation

Author

Erika Swyler

A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, inscribed with his grandmother's name. What is the book's connection to his family?

Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the...

Lent

Author	Jo Walton
ISBN	0765379066

From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning Jo Walton comes Lent, a magical re-imagining of the man who remade fifteenth-century Florence—in all its astonishing strangeness

Young Girolamo’s life is a series of miracles.

It’s a miracle that he can see demons, plain...

The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece

Author	Edward Dolnick
ISBN	0060531177

The little-known world of art theft is compellingly portrayed in Dolnick's account of the 1994 theft and recovery of Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.

In the predawn gloom of a February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo. They snatched one of the world's...

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

Author	Timothy Egan
ISBN	0618969020

How a lone man's epic obsession led to one of America's greatest cultural treasures: Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan tells the riveting, cinematic story behind the most famous photographs in Native American history -- and the driven, brilliant man who made them.

Edward Curtis was charismatic,...

Crimes Against Nature: Squatters, Poachers, Thieves, and the Hidden History of American Conservation

Author	Karl Jacoby
ISBN	0520239091

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such traditional practices as hunting, fishing,...