When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking act of protest. Five months earlier, logger-turned-activist Grant Hadwin had plunged naked into a river in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands, towing a chainsaw. When his night's work was done, a unique Sitka spruce, 165 feet tall and covered with luminous golden needles, teetered on its stump. Two days later it fell.
As vividly as John Krakauer puts readers on Everest, John Vaillant takes us into the heart of North America's last great...
When a shattered kayak and camping gear are found on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Northwest, they reignite a mystery surrounding a shocking ac...
Extraordinary The horrors of a single passage over the border blossom into a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free. NPR
A] heartbreaker Wrenching with a voice fresh and plangent enough to disarm resistance. Boston Globe
Fearless. Globe and Mail
Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar s phone: Annimac....
Extraordinary The horrors of a single passage over the border blossom into a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the t...
