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

from Bcteagirl

The Golden Spruce : A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed is a Non-fiction book set in British Columbia, largely on the islands. I have to admit, being a prairie girl, I had not even heard of the Golden Spruce before reading this book. Apparently on the Island there was a golden spruce, with ne...

from TerriBooks

I cruised on the Inside Passage between Vancouver and Alaska, and this book is set in that same area, so I was interested in reading it. It highlights some of the issues of that area, and of our culture in general, through the story of a remarkable tree, the Golden Spruce. This tree, important to...

from SeriousGrace

I like to think of Vaillant's book as a guided tour. He flies his readers over British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, giving us a bird's eye view of the forest sacred to the Haida tribe. He then swoops in lower to let us examine the history and culture of not only the land and its people, bu...

from arrwa

This book was about much more than a man and a tree. You learn of the logging history in B.C., you learn about the history and culture of the Haida. This book illustrates how one tree represents a story that is symbolic to a culture who's roots extend to the first peoples being on at that land, y...

from Niecierpek

The story revolves around Grant Hadwin, an expert Canadian logger turned environmentalist, and his seemingly incomprehensible and barbaric act of cutting down an old, beautiful and one of a kind mutant spruce tree with golden needles called the Golden Spruce. Hadwin surreptitiously cut down the G...