Big Lonely Doug : the story of one of Canada's last great trees
Record details
- ISBN: 9781487003111 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), map ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Publisher: [Toronto] : House of Anansi Press Inc., 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Ecotourism -- British Columbia Logging -- British Columbia Old growth forest conservation -- British Columbia Old growth forest ecology -- British Columbia |
Available copies
- 26 of 28 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 28 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 577.309711 Rust (Text) | 33294002048635 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Perseus Publishing
In the tradition of John Vaillantâs modern classic The Golden Spruce comes the story of Big Lonely Doug, one of the largest trees in North America whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, Native American land and resource rights, and the fraught future of the ancient forests.
- Perseus Publishing
Finalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing
Finalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition
Finalist, BC Book Prize
Globe and Mail best books of 2018
CBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018In the tradition of John Vaillantâs modern classic The Golden Spruce comes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.
On a cool morning in the winter of 2011, a logger named Dennis Cronin was walking through a stand of old-growth forest near Port Renfrew on Vancouver Island. He came across a massive Douglas fir the height of a twenty-storey building. Instead of allowing the tree to be felled, he tied a ribbon around the trunk, bearing the words âLeave Tree.â The forest was cut but the tree was saved. The solitary Douglas fir, soon known as Big Lonely Doug, controversially became the symbol of environmental activists and their fight to protect the regionâs dwindling old-growth forests.
Originally featured as a long-form article in The Walrus that garnered a National Magazine Award (Silver), Big Lonely Doug weaves the ecology of old-growth forests, the legend of the West Coastâs big trees, the turbulence of the logging industry, the fight for preservation, the contention surrounding ecotourism, First Nations land and resource rights, and the fraught future of these ancient forests around the story of a logger who saved one of Canada's last great trees.