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

Author/Contributor(s):	Vaillant, John
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	05/17/2006
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. Vaillant profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree.