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Cargando... The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed (2005 original; edición 2006)por John Vaillant
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. Valliant has quickly become one of my favorite narrative nonfiction writers and this book shows his early chops. It starts with a mystery disappearance of a Native activist, named Grant Hadwin, in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands. He had been charged with setting a unique Sitka golden spruce on fire, in protest of the massive logging industry. Vaillant perfectly lays out such intricate details, dealing with logging, conservation and the environment. He is a master at this approach. Highly recommended. ( ) 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.] sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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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