{"product_id":"the-golden-spruce-by-john-vaillant-9780099515791","title":"The Golden Spruce","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe award-winning international bestseller and a timely, even prescient, portrait of man's troubled relationship with a vanishing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the sadness which pushed Hadwin to such a desperate act of destruction—a bizarre environmental protest which acts as a metaphor for the challenge the world faces today. But it also raises the question of what then happened to Hadwin, who disappeared under suspicious circumstances and remains missing to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart thrilling mystery, part haunting depiction of the ancient beauty of the coastal wilderness, and part dramatic chronicle of the historical collision of Europeans and the native Haida, \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely portrait of man's troubled relationship with a vanishing world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'His story is about one man and one tree, but it is much more than that. John Vaillant has written a work that will change how many people think about nature.' \u003cstrong\u003eSEBASTIAN JUNGER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Rich, painterly prose... Vaillant is absolutely spellbinding... His descriptions of the Queen Charlotte Islands, with their misty, murky light and hushed, cathedral-like forests, are haunting, and he does full justice to the noble, towering trees.' \u003cstrong\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46855000424684,"sku":"9780099515791","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780099515791.jpg?v=1759260276","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/the-golden-spruce-by-john-vaillant-9780099515791","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}