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The Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods. - Review - book review
Progressive, The, Sept, 2000 by Kellia Ramares
Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods by Julia Butterfly/Hill HarperSanFrancisco. 256 pages. $25.00.
This book works best as the autobiography of a directionless young woman who accepted a mission and saw it through despite harrowing hardships. A preacher's daughter, Hill was not a forest activist before she took up the fight to save Luna, an ancient-growth redwood in Northern California: For two years, she engaged in civil disobedience by tree-sitting Luna. Her discussion of forest preservation issues is humane, unaffected, yet somewhat superficial. She neither harangues nor sermonizes, but some people might find her frequent references to prayer and spirituality syrupy.
Hill's story of how she ended up in the tree in the first place is a captivating one, as is her account of how she coped with the hardball capitalists running PacificLumber/Maaxam, contended with the media celebrity factory, kept other activists with their own political agendas at bay, and endured a not-always bucolic environment. Luna loses steam toward the finish because Hill's description of the negotiations that ended her action lacks dramatic punch. Still, it's a good read about activism as a transformative experience.
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