Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Simon Winchester

464 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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...

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