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The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
by Authors:
John Vaillant
Hardcover
Average Customer Rating:
Really well written story
I picked up this book on a whim and really enjoyed it. The writer has writen a captivating story about the loggin industry of the Northwest. He has managed to present several sides of the story and you come away informed without feeling like you have been preached too.
I agree with the reviewer who wanted a picture of the Golden Spruce. I hope in the next printing they also include a map of the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Overall a terrific book. It really makes me think about the cost of wood in our society......
Great Writer
This is an incredibly well written book and I loved it. I have to say that I wish they (publicist or who ever) had not compared John Vaillant to Jon Krakauer because aside from the subjects being something they both would be interested in, they are not comparable in their writing styles and I think it does Vaillant an injustice not to let him stand on his own. I think that if you like Krakauer you might be let down by Vaillant simply because they have different writing styles. John Vaillant is more of a historian; his book is very detailed and technical; whereas Krakauer's writing is much more haunting and emotional and pulls you in the way a novel does. Also, when you buy this book keep in mind that Vaillant goes into a lot of history of the logging industry, the Golden Spruce, and the Haida as well as the story of Grant Hadwin. If you are interested in all of those things you will enjoy this book immensely. On another note, if environmentalists could articulate their cause the way that Vaillant has, more people would be interested and sympathetic to their cause; this book definitely opened my eyes. Although this book is not a novel, it is definitely a tragedy on many fronts; the Greeks would applaud.
A Special Tree Filled With Myth and Magic.
The tree was an object of 'awe and reverence' to anyone who had a chance to see it. In 1984, tour buses stopped for the adventure and spiritual feeling on beholding the peculiar golden radiance on a sunny afternoon, as if the branches were radiating light from the sudden illumination when the fog lifts; it looked like a fairy tale. Located in British Columbia where Vancouver is now, the tall majestic trees in that forest looked like the giant Sequoias in California. One picture in the photo section shows part of a cut-up tree, a 50-ton log, which dwarfted the seven men who had loaded it onto a railroad mover in 1935.
There were various myths about the young boy who became the golden spruce. "To read Haida speaker's English version of the golden spruce story is kind of like reading on of [Chaucer's]THE CANTERBURY TALES. The story of K'iid K'iyaas combines the elements of Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's Ark as well as the Greek myths of Artemis, Orpheus and Eurydice." The boy who looked back after his grandfather had told him not to, while leaving their doomed village where everyone else had died from starvation during a blizzard. "His feet took root in the forest floor." It was the boy who became the golden spruce.
In 1997, a white raven appeared to take up residence in the golden spruce. It was the only one of its kind to survive the black ravens in the province. "Between it and the [tree]..., Port Clements has cornered the freak-of-nature market in western Canada. Located in a remote area, the journey from Seattle or Vancouver, via car and ferry, takes three days." Canada had not been confederated and the islands were full of different clans of Eskimos. They were full of the moated rainforest clinging to the shoulders of snow-capped mountains, and not an easy place to reach. The loggers had found their paradise after WWII and a U.S. (Yale) educated Canadian circumnavigated the globe drumming up business for the British Columbia wood products. His holdings would extend from southeast Asia all the way to the Yakoun River and the golden spruce.
Yet, it was a maverick (accused culprit) who felt in his delusions that he was meant to cut down this very special tree. The cover shows the yellow-Christmas tree in its splendor. He crossed the border at Hyder, Alaska, and purchased a chain saw. Chain saws were developed in 1905, when a two-man prototype was successfully tested in Eureaka, California. Grant Hadwin did the dasdardly deed on January 31, 1997.
Left in peace, the golden spruce could have lived until the 26th century. "The stump revealed no rot, even though some internal decay is common in coastal trees more than 250 years old." It is thought that the golden spruce was perhaps three hundred. There was a memorial ceremony held, the first of its kind in North America, on February 1 to "mourn one of our ancestors." There is a picture of an elaborate memorial pole erected by the community on March 19, 2003. This past winter, a lovely tall blue spruce tree was cut down at the entrance to the apartment house where I live. I miss that beautiful tree and have tried to fill in the open cavity in its trunk with anything which may be able to take over and grow. It looks so desolate without its crowning glory. It is not easy to grow the blue spruce here in Tennessee; some people don't appreciate nature.
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