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Cargando... The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (2005 original; edición 2006)por John Vaillant (Autor)
Información de la obraThe Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed por John Vaillant (2005)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Too many words. ( ) Some VERY beautiful writing early on, and an interesting story. I found it a bit hard to get into, but somewhere around page 100 I was hooked. I know it's being compared to Into the Wild and other wilderness-meets-madness stories, and I don't think that this tale compares favorably. However, if this is the author's first book, I am excited to read more. There were times in Vaillant's narrative when I thought, "Aren't we going kind of far afield here?". For indeed, the book covers broad swathes of history, including compressed histories of the lumber industry, Native American history, oceanography of the Pacific Northwest, and more. And yet Vaillant always brings the story back around and you find that the diversions do enrich the tale. [Audiobook Note: Edoardo Ballerini does a first-rate job here.] The writing in this book is beautiful. I really love big trees and I love stories about the Northwest. This was an interesting story intertwined with the history of logging in the area, and a general commentary on humanity. It is pretty depressing to show the repetition in history of us consuming resources till they are gone, and how our free market economy makes it difficult to stop the vicious cycle. Pertinent quotes:
Replace wood with oil, and you have our current situation.
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HTML: A tale of obsession so fierce that a man kills the thing he loves most: the only giant golden spruce on earth. 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. .No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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