Golden Spruce A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

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

ISBN-10: 0393328643

ISBN-13: 9780393328646

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Authors: John Vaillant

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A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. "Absolutely spellbinding."William Grimes, New York Times As vividly as Jon Krakauer put readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest, where trees grow to eighteen feet in diameter, sunlight never touches the ground, and the chainsaws are always at work. When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island, 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…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Prologue: Driftwood



— A Threshold Between Worlds



— The Beginning of the End



— A Boardwalk to Mars



— The People



— Wildest of the Wild



— The Tooth of the Human Race



— The Fatal Flaw



— The Fall



— Myth



— Hecate Strait



— The Search



— The Secret



— Coyote



— Over the Horizon Epilogue: Revival Wood Measurement


Bibliography


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