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Book SynopsisFinalist, 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 2018
In the tradition of John Vaillant's 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 Leave Tree. 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 prot
Trade Review
The story of Big Lonely Doug unfolds in marvellous detail, with liberal doses of humour, pathos, and conflict.
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