[CCC] John Vaillant Talk - Nov. 6th - The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed

[Stacey Hickson]

Dear CCC,

John Vaillant, a Canadian investigative journalist, will be in Cambridge on
Tuesday, November 6th to give a talk about collisions between human ambition
and the natural world and his book "The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth,
Madness, and Greed.". The talk will take place in the Lesley Stephen room at
Trinity Hall at 7:30pm. 

THE GOLDEN SPRUCE: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed, which is being
published by Random House in the UK this July and which was published in the
US and Canada back in '05. The book has been a bestseller in North America
and has won a  number of awards, including the Governor General's Award for
Non- Fiction (Canada).

Anything with "golden," "mystery," "madness," and "greed" in the title is
bound to be good! See below for a further description and a review from The
Times. 

 

See you there!

 

Stacey

 The Golden Spruce is set in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British
Columbia.  It is a =true= eco-mystery/adventure story that is built around
the death of a gigantic golden tree of which there was only one in the
world.  At its root though is an examination of the cost of our appetites
for natural resources and the ongoing quest for balance vs. profit.