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This Land Is Our Land : How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ken Ilgunas (2018, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10073521784X

ISBN-139780735217843

eBay Product ID (ePID)9038444744

Product Key Features

Book TitleThis Land Is Our Land : How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

TopicEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Economic History, General, Development / Economic Development, Land Use, Parks & Campgrounds, Property, Public Policy / Environmental Policy

IllustratorYes

GenreNature, Law, Travel, Political Science, Sports & Recreation, Business & Economics

AuthorKen Ilgunas

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length7.4 in

Item Width4.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-036689

Reviews"There's nothing much uglier than a 'No Trespassing' sign--and in much of the world you don't see them, because people have the right to ramble across the land. In this unique and powerful volume, Ken Ilgunas explains why Americans are fenced in, and how we could change that sad state of affairs!" --Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont "How wonderfully refreshing to have a skilled writer like Ken Ilgunas shake us from our daily distractions and invite us to look to the horizon, to the beautiful lands around us and to a future in which we enjoy them more fully. With Ilgunas leading us along an idea that first sounds radical if not misguided becomes, step by step, more workable and appealing. Who knows, he just might be right: we can both respect private property and vastly expand access to the lands we all call home." --Eric Freyfogle, author of On Private Property and Our Oldest Task

SynopsisPrivate property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America's public lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few. Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces. Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly--from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters.

LC Classification NumberHD205.I53 2018