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

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ilgunas, Ken (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Subjects:
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.
Table of 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.