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Land how the hunger for ownership shaped the modern world

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The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property -- our proprietary relationship with the land -- through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Land -- whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or...

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Main Author: Winchester, Simon (Author, Narrator)
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Language:English
Published: New York : HarperAudio, 2021.
Edition:Unabridged.
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Land tenure > History.
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Summary:The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property -- our proprietary relationship with the land -- through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Land -- whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city -- is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing -- and have done -- with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world's land -- and why does it matter? Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Item Description:Unabridged.
Physical Description:1 online resource (13 audio files) : digital
Playing Time:13:46:44
Format:Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 387583 KB).
ISBN:9780062938367
Author Notes:Simon Winchester was born in London, England on September 28, 1944. He read geology at St. Catherine's College, Oxford. After graduation in 1966, he joined a Canadian mining company and worked as field geologist in Uganda. The following year he decided to become a journalist. His first reporting job was for The Journal, Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1969, he joined The Guardian and was named Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971. He also worked for the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times before becoming a freelancer.

He is the author of numerous books including In Holy Terror, The River at the Center of the World, The Alice Behind Wonderland, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, and.Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism and literature.

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