The Golden Spruce

A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

Author  John Vaillant
The Golden Spruce

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“Absolutely spellbinding.” —The New York Times

The environmental true-crime story of a glorious natural wonder, the man who destroyed it, and the fascinating, troubling context in which this act took place. 

FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR

On a winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence in the mythic Queen Charlotte Islands. His victim was legendary: a unique 300-year-old Sitka spruce tree, fifty metres tall and covered with luminous golden needles. In a bizarre environmental protest, Hadwin attacked the tree with a chainsaw. Two days later, it fell, horrifying an entire community. Not only…

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January 3, 2006
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