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A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
W. W. Norton
June 2006
On Sale: May 29, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 0393328643
EAN: 9780393328646
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Non-Fiction
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 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. The tree, a fascinating puzzle to scientists, was sacred to
the Haida, a fierce seafaring tribe based in the Queen
Charlottes. Vaillant recounts the bloody history of the
Haida and the early fur trade, and provides harrowing
details of the logging industry, whose omnivorous violence
would claim both Hadwin and the golden spruce. 16 pages of
illustrations.
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