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Articles, reviews and other Golden Spruce related materials
[|NPR: Killing the Golden Spruce] //The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed// tells the story of a sacred tree, a logger-turned environmentalist and a shocking act of environmental protest in the woods of British Columbia. Michele Norris talks with author John Vaillant.

[|The Tyee: Greed, Betrayal and the Murder of the Golden Spruce] ([|Part I] & [|Part II]) //Vaillant was interviewed by Hal Wake as part of the Talk of the Town series in Vancouver.// The Tyee //presents that wide ranging, fascinating conversation in two parts running today and tomorrow.//

[|CBC: Rugged Individual] //"A dead man who might not be dead, an adventure story that isn’t your average adventure set in a series of islands that Vaillant calls “a threshold between worlds,” The Golden Spruce is a portrait of liminality, an exploration of the adventure that happens in the in-between. In fact, it seems about right that it should be our homegrown answer to the blockbuster danger book: it’s a true Canuck tale, man versus nature, but not too flashy, and hard to define in traditional terms."//