The Golden Spruce

Name: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
ISBN: 9780393328646

A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

John Vaillant

2006·272 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Crime

folklore gritty true crime

“As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest”
— John Vaillant

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell. John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.

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