{"product_id":"big-lonely-doug-9781487003111","title":"Big Lonely Doug","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Banff Mountain Book Competition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, BC Book Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGlobe and Mail best books of 2018\u003cbr\u003eCBC best Canadian non-fiction of 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the tradition of John Vaillant's modern classic \u003cem\u003eThe Golden Spruce \u003c\/em\u003ecomes a story of the unlikely survival of one of the largest and oldest trees in Canada.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story of \u003cem\u003eBig Lonely Doug\u003c\/em\u003e unfolds in marvellous detail, with liberal doses of humour, pathos, and conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e * Foreword Reviews *","brand":"House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531000684887,"sku":"9781487003111","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487003111.jpg?v=1731881303","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/big-lonely-doug-9781487003111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}