03210cam a2200337 4500 583342342 TxAuBib 20220519120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780525532422 0525532420 e0405a8a-4f35-4d96-b12f-f616c9b9d876 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3461742 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ilgunas, Ken. This Land Is Our Land [Libby] : How We Lost the Right to Roam and How to Take It Back. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2018. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 174MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 174MB. Nature. Politics. Travel. Nonfiction. HTML:Private property is everywhere. Almost anywhere you walk in the United States, you will spot “No Trespassing” and “Private Property” signs on trees and fence posts. In America, there are more than a billion acres of grassland pasture, cropland, and forest, and miles and miles of coastlines that are mostly closed off to the public. Meanwhile, America’s <i>public</i> lands are threatened by extremist groups and right-wing think tanks who call for our public lands to be sold to the highest bidder and closed off to everyone else. If these groups get their way, public property may become private, precious green spaces may be developed, and the common good may be sacrificed for the benefit of the wealthy few.<br /> <br /> Ken Ilgunas, lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer, takes readers back to the nineteenth century, when Americans were allowed to journey undisturbed across the country. Today, though, America finds itself as an outlier in the Western world as a number of European countries have created sophisticated legal systems that protect landowners and give citizens generous roaming rights to their countries' green spaces.<br /> &#160;<br /> Inspired by the United States' history of roaming, and taking guidance from present-day Europe, Ilgunas calls into question our entrenched understanding of private property and provocatively proposes something unheard of: opening up American private property for public recreation. He imagines a future in which folks everywhere will have the right to walk safely, explore freely, and roam boldly—from California to the New York island, from the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-17 20:00:03. Eiden, Andrew. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/3461742-ThisLandIsOurLand.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e0405a8a-4f35-4d96-b12f-f616c9b9d876&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/3461742-ThisLandIsOurLand.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=e0405a8a-4f35-4d96-b12f-f616c9b9d876&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)