I'm finding one of the offshoots of my new teaching assignment is I am able to read for pleasure now. English teachers have plenty to read, but they are essays and such. It seems like a Purgatory when a person that is attracted to language and reading gets stuck reading essays from young people that are learning to write.
This book was passed along from a fellow teacher and is the true tale of a man that grows up a part of the logging industry in British Columbia and comes to see the waste and madness of what is happening. He then cuts down a sacred tree to the native Haida and eventually disappears. Some say he is dead, some say he is alive and some say they wish they could kill him. It is a fascinating story of the logging business, with the greed, conflict and loss of lives that are indicative of an expanding influence of humans on the landscape.
It reminded me of a John Krakauer book (Into Thin Air). Lots of background information that seems tedious at times, but eventually is woven into meaning in the final storytelling.
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