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Signed copy of "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped our Modern World"

Item Number: 111

Estimated Value: 30 USD
Sold: 12 USD to aj0e51538

Number of Bids: 1 - Bid History

Item Description

Signed copy of "Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World" by Simon Winchester.

This book is a satisfying history lesson that shares engaging revelations about land and property. It 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? 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. **Signed copy

http://www.simonwinchester.com/

Generously donated by Simon Winchester

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