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The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed / John Vaillant.

Vaillant, John. (Author).

Summary:

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. As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0393328643
  • ISBN: 9780393328646
  • Physical Description: xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
  • Edition: 1st Norton pbk. ed.
  • Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2006, �2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255).
Formatted Contents Note:
A threshold between worlds -- The people -- Wildest of the wild -- The tooth of the human race -- The beginning of the end -- A boardwalk to Mars -- The fatal flaw -- The fall -- Myth -- Hecate Strait -- The search -- The secret -- Coyote -- Over the horizon.
Subject:
Sitka spruce > British Columbia > Haida Gwaii.
Hadwin, Grant.
Logging > British Columbia > Haida Gwaii.
Haida Indians > British Columbia > Haida Gwaii.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Lummi Library SD 397 .S77 V35 2005 287778 Stacks Reshelving -