Books by John Vaillant and Complete Book Reviews
John Vaillant, Author . Norton $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-05887-1
The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. First-time author Vaillant, who originally wrote about
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John Vaillant, Knopf, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-26893-8
The grisly rampage of a man-eating Amur, or Siberian, tiger and the effort to trap it frame this suspenseful and majestically narrated introduction to a world that few people, even Russians, are familiar with. Northeast of China lies Russia’s...
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John Vaillant. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-0-544-31549-5
Following his nonfiction works The Golden Spruce and The Tiger, Vaillant delivers a dramatic, tense novel that begins in the claustrophobic confines of a water truck, in which 15 would-be immigrants to the U.S. are trapped; among them are Hector...
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John Vaillant. Knopf, $32.50 (432p) ISBN 978-1-5247-3285-1
Journalist Vaillant (The Tiger) offers a gripping account of the May 2016 fire that engulfed the city of Fort McMurray in the Canadian province of Alberta, destroying thousands of homes and forcing the evacuation of 88,000 people. His vivid...
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