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The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed

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Running Time: 09:53 hrs

Narrator: Richard Nazarewich

Publisher:
BC Libraries Cooperative, 2025

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Author: Vaillant, John

Date:

Created
2005

Summary:
In 1997, when a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an Alaskan island north of the Canadian border, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. The author braids together the strands of this mystery and brings to life the historical collision of Europeans and the Haida and the harrowing world of logging.

Genre:
True crime stories, Canadian nonfiction, History and geography, Nature and the environment

Subject(s): Hadwin, Grant | Forest policy | Chlorosis (Plants) | Logging | Sitka spruce | British Columbia | British Columbia--Haida Gwaii

Original Publisher: Toronto, Knopf Canada

Language(s): English

Collection(s)/Series: British Columbia Collection