Old Growth - booklist
and further reading
(and watching, and listening...) Alex Eddington did a lot of soul-searching before/while writing Old Growth - but he also did a lot of reading...
but not as much as he hoped to.
This ever-growing list of books/things would be a good place to start
for anyone wanting to get a handle on the many different
interconnected issues at play in our environmental crisis - or to learn
more about the most important kinds of bricks in the Old Growth
house: Haida culture, shamanism, and trees.
They are organized here according to topics addressed (so, some of them repeat)...
GREEN = Alex has already read BLUE = sitting in Alex's pile, but comes highly recommended
WHITE = other media. Not books! Recordings! Films!
HAIDA GWAII / the QUEEN CHARLOTTE ISLANDS - social history and geography
Haida Gwaii: the Queen Charlotte Islands - Dennis Horwood and Tom Parkin Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of the Loon to the Time of the Iron People (Pacific Rim Archeology - Daryl W. Fedje and Rolf W. Mathewes
The Golden Spruce: a True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed - John Vaillant
HAIDA ART
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art - Peter Macnair
Haida Monumental Art - George F. MacDonald
Art of the Northwest Coast - Aldona Jonaitis
HAIDA STORYTELLING
Mouse Woman and the Vanished Princess Mouse Woman and the Mischief Makers Mouse Woman and the Muddleheads- Christie Harris
The Raven Steals the Light - William (Bill) Reid and Robert Bringhurst
A Story as Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World - Robert Bringhurst
HAIDA MUSIC
Northern Haida Songs - John Enrico and Wendy Boss Stuart
(Smithsonian Global Sound) -- Haida: Indian Music of the Pacific Northwest - collected and recorded by Ida Halpern (LP) (1986)
SHAMANISM
there are many, many books
about Shamanism - but I am ashamed to say that I can't seem to track
down the titles of the out-of-print ones that I read at the library.
Much of my information actually came through the books on
storytelling and Haida Art.
Raven Travelling: Two Centuries of Haida Art - Peter Macnair has some very good leads about Haida shamans in particular
THE GOLDEN SPRUCE / GRANT HADWIN
The Golden Spruce: a True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed - John Vaillant
TREES
Tree: a Life Story - David Suzuki
The Wild Trees - Richard Preston
The Golden Spruce: a True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed - John Vaillant
GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL
From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis - David Suzuki
The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
The End of Nature - Bill McKibben
POLLUTION / BIOACCUMULATION
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
GLOBAL WARMING
Heat - George Monbiot
The Weather Makers - Tim Flannery
The Rough Guide to Climate Change - Robert Henson
Greenhouse: a two-hundred-year-old history of Global Warming - Gale E. Christianson
SOLUTIONS and NEW DIRECTIONS - to avoid environmental catastrophe
The Geography of Hope: a Guided Tour of the World We Need - Chris Turner