The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (inscribed with signed card)
NY: W.W. Norton, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed on the title page: "To Clark Munro, with all good wishes, May 6, 2007, Johan Valliant." Uncommon signed in this U.S. edition. Also laid in is a brief note on Vaillant's personal stationary: "Dear Mr. Munro, Thanks for your patience--and for reading! All the best, John Vaillant." A gripping story set in British Columbia about the felling of a revered Sitka spruce with a genetic mutation that caused it to have golden needles. Vaillant has since won the Pulitzer Prize for Fire Weather. Green and black paper boards. Black and white photo insert. A fine copy in fine jacket. The notecard is very good with a few droplet marks on it that have smudged several words. Fine / Fine. Item #2210
ISBN: 0393058875
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"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."
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