The Golden Spruce 
Subtitle: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
Publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited
Published: 2006
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780676976465
First sentence: ON THE NORTHWEST COAST, there is no graceful interval between the ocean and the trees; the forest simply takes over where the tide wrack ends, erupting full-blown from the shallow, bouldered earth.