The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
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A spellbinding account of environmentalism, obsession, myth, the Pacific Northwest, native peoples, and one extraordinary magical golden Sitka spruce standing lone and proud on an island in British Columbia, sprung from an article by the author, John Vaillant, in The New Yorker. A must-read for anyone interested in any of the above topics–and also for everyone else.
