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

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

Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot "No Trespassing"...
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This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ilgunas, Ken

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

$33.16
This Land Is Our Land: How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back by Ilgunas, Ken

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

$33.16
Author: Ken Ilgunas
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Private 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.

Author: Ken Ilgunas
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 04/10/2018
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.30h x 4.20w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780735217843


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2018
Booklist 03/01/2018 pg. 7

About the Author
Ken Ilgunas is an award-winning author, journalist, and backcountry ranger in Alaska. He has hitchhiked ten thousand miles across North America, paddled one thousand miles across Ontario in a birchbark canoe, and walked 1,700 miles across the Great Plains, following the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline. Ilgunas has a BA from SUNY Buffalo in history and English, and an MA in liberal studies from Duke University. The author of travel memoirs Walden on Wheels and Trespassing Across America, he is from Wheatfield, New York.
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