THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHER, WINNER OF THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
WINNER OF A WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2014
''Absolutely spellbinding'' New York Times
''Will change how many people think about nature'' Sebastian Junger
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JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF NORTH AMERICA''S LAST GREAT FOREST.
On a bleak winter night in 1997, a British Columbia timber scout named Grant Hadwin committed an act of shocking violence: he destroyed the legendary Golden Spruce of the Queen Charlotte Islands. With its rich colours, towering height and luminous needles, the tree was a scientific marvel, beloved by the local Haida people who believed it sacred.
The Golden Spruce tells the story of the sadness which pushed Hadwin to such a desperate act of destruction - a bizarre environmental protest which acts as a metap
