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Author:

Ilgunas, Ken, author.

Title:

This land is our land : how we lost the right to roam and how to take it back / Ken Ilgunas.

Publisher:

Plumean imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xiv, 272 pages ; 19 cm

Subject:

Land use--United States.
Land use--Government policy--United States.
Right of way--United States.
Public lands--United States.
Right of property--United States.
Land tenure--United States.
Recreation areas--United States.

Notes:

"A Plume Book." Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The right to roam -- The closing of America -- A brief history of trespassing -- An abbreviated journey across Europe -- The land Americans once roamed -- Why we need a right to roam -- The arguments against roaming -- A right to roam how do we get there? -- This land is our land.

Summary:

Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside. Hometown: Hamilton, ON. Print run 20,000.

ISBN:

073521784X
9780735217843

OCLC:

(OCoLC)994315696

LCCN:

2017036689

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)