Our last book of 2016 features the Golden Spruce, a true story about how a forest engineer Grant Hadwin surreptitiously felled the tree as a political statement against industrial logging companies. He was later arrested but disappeared on his way to trial.

This month’s book: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant.

John Vaillant is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, National Geographic, and Outside, among others.  His first book,  The Golden Spruce (Norton, 2005), was a bestseller and won several awards, including the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction (Canada).

To learn more about John Vaillant, visit www.thetigerbook.com/the-author/

All of the books for our Book Club will be sold at the local Ottawa bookstore, Perfect Books which is conveniently located downtown on Elgin Street. Perfect Books is offering a 15% discount on each book the month it is featured.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Tree Team at treeottawa@ecologyottawa.ca.

This is our very last meeting of 2016! Thank you all so much for being involved with our Tree Ottawa Book Club! 

Feel free to continue checking our website for any changes at treeottawa.org/book-club.