| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.1

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Book Review

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed. By John Vaillant. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005. xii + 255 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. $24.95.

The Golden Spruce primarily focuses on the biography and subsequent mystery surrounding the disappearance in 1997 of a British Columbian logger, Grant Hadwin, who, in a fit of psychological mania and misguided eco-activist fervor, chopped down a celebrated old-growth spruce tree in the forests of the Queen Charlotte Islands, just off the west coast of British Columbia. The venerable 165-foot tree, K'iid K'iyaas (Elder Spruce Tree) to the indigenous Haida, was not just any old tree. It was a tribal icon—part of the tribe's rich mythology as a tree-centered civilization. Its amazing three-hundred-year survival (as a luminous orphan strain of spruce) served as an additional reminder to twentieth-century Haida generations of the tribe's rootedness and the antiquity of their regional presence and cultural traditions.

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