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3.5⭐️ It was something that I was glad to have read, even though I probably wouldn‘t have picked it up on my own. #2023 #bookclub #bookstagram #nonfiction #bookreview #mystery #truecrime #biography #britishcolumbia #forestindustry

Gripping story about a shocking, violent and somewhat perplexing act of environmental protest in British Columbia. Great read!

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The Hidden Life of Trees meets Devil in the White City. This masterpiece of environmentalist true crime writing had me spellbound from start to finish. Lifelong Canadian logger Grant Hadwin experiences a spiritual transformation into an environmental activist. His increasingly quixotic quest to change the industry in the 1990s leads to a bizarre and seemingly inexplicable protest with a truly epic backstory. Hadwin remains missing to this day.

A wonderful history of the Queen Charlotte islands and the logging industry of North America. Vaillant‘s emotional writing tugs on the heartstrings of the reader and enhances the already existing love and respect most people naturally have for the rainforest. I didn‘t expect to enjoy this book as much as I did.

Good read. A book on the history of logging and colonization of British Columbia‘s coastal forests and the Haida people told through the story of a man who cut down a sacred golden spruce in a twisted protest of the rapacious logging committed by MacMillian-Bloedel and Weyehaueser. I grew up in a town and forested community ravaged by Weyco. It hit home. Now I want to visit Haida Gawaii.

“Despite the logging industry‘s profound impact on our lives and on this continent, few people outside the industry have actually witnessed a logging operation. While some of the mystery can be traced to the industry‘s skittish attitude toward spectators, it also owes much to the average consumer‘s lack of interest in the origins or true costs of the resources we take for granted”. So true.

Well, at least I‘m beginning this book in a beautiful spot on vacation. I know it will sadden and anger me.

The good thing about emptying your bookshelves is that something that's sat there for years suddenly gets noticed again. This belongs to Mr Oryx, and it was bought about 12 years ago, and had never been read. It's compared to Into the Wild, so I'm giving it ago. Really interesting so far, and now I want to go to the Pacific Northwest.

This checks a number of boxes for me - cold weather islands (ever heard of the Haida Gwaii?), Canada, nature, and tiny fascinating facts to keep my interest through the whole read! Plus one glorious tree and one troubled man.

Amazing book! It‘s about man‘s tense relationship with nature. He uses a small story to tell a much larger one. Check out his other book - The Tiger - as well.

Captivating. As a protest to logging practices, a man chopped down a giant beloved 300-year-old Sitka spruce one night in 1997. His whereabouts remain a mystery. Dense with information and ideas across a broad spectrum of topics, this book really made me want to visit Haida Gwaii.