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

Author: John Vaillant Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Biographies, True crime Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780393328646 0393328643

When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, 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. As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great forest. Similar books: The Ice Man by Philip Carlo The Guv'nor by Lenny McLean I Choose to Live by Sabine Dardenne A Saint on Death Row by Thomas Cahill Blue Blood by Edward Conlon The Tiger by John Vaillant Terry Fox by Leslie Scrivener The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt Sin in the Second City by Karen Abbott Who Murdered Chaucer? by Terry Jones The Spy's Son by Bryan Denson Gotti's Rules by George Anastasia H. H. Holmes by Hourly History The Map Thief by Michael Blanding Who Killed Kurt Cobain? by Ian Halperin Mafia Son by Sandra Harmon The Year of Fear by Joe Urschel