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The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed / John Vaillant.
LIBRA - Special SD397.S77 V35 2005b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vaillant, John.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sitka spruce--British Columbia--Haida Gwaii.
- Sitka spruce.
- Hadwin, Grant.
- Logging--British Columbia--Haida Gwaii.
- Logging.
- Haida Indians--British Columbia--Haida Gwaii.
- Haida Indians.
- British Columbia--Haida Gwaii.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 246 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Advance Reading Copy.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
- Summary:
- Traces the political, religious, and scientific factors that contributed to the seemingly inexplicable decision of logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin to destroy the world's only giant golden spruce tree.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- OCLC:
- 922699019
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