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Trespassing - John Hanson Mitchell

Trespassing

By: John Hanson Mitchell

Paperback | 5 May 2015

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Trespassing, "a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature" (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild land controlled periodically by various Native American tribes became British crown land after 1654, then private property under US law, and finally common land again in the late twentieth century. Mitchell considers every aspect of the important issue of land ownership and explores how our attitudes toward land have changed over the centuries.
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Washington Post Book World" Audubon" "A Thoreauvian wanderer . . . an engaging writer . . . a very big subject with serious ramifications."-- "Washington Post Book World" "The beauty of the book also lies in Mitchell's intimacy with the tract of land ... the depth of the setting deepens the reader's feel for the humans that populate it."-- "Audubon" The beauty of the book also lies in Mitchell s intimacy with the tract of land the depth of the setting deepens the reader s feel for the humans that populate it. Audubon" A Thoreauvian wanderer . . . an engaging writer . . . a very big subject with serious ramifications. Washington Post Book World"

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