Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World - Simon Winchester Audiobook
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Read by Simon Winchester
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release date: January 19, 2021
Duration: 13:52:44
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.
“British author/narrator Simon Winchester’s Queen’s English, familiarity with his material, and passion for his subject matter make this a winning choice. Also, his rhythm is perfect for this audiobook’s numerous digressions. LAND provides listeners with a new way of looking at an old phenomenon: how humans turned the earth’s surface into a proprietary patchwork of boundaries, title holdings, and commons. We learn how Europeans dispossessed the land of Native peoples, how one woman came to own 29 million acres of mineral-rich soil, how the invention of barbed wire changed the way land is bounded, and how land can be mismanaged. Alternately fascinating and concerning, this work explains how humans “tamed” and then claimed the land, first for survival and then for profit.”…. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 4.6/5
July 27th, 2023
Thank you for fulfilling the request!
Listening the first few minutes and found his sound aged so much comparing with his previous books a while back. Then just realized he turns 78 y/o. Now it’s like listening to grandpa telling stories. An unexpected joy of audiobooks read by the author <3
July 28th, 2023
Thank you!
July 28th, 2023
“How the White European’s hunger for ownership of other peoples’ land and other peoples’ bodies got us all into this mess”
August 3rd, 2023
@koloko, it was the 0.1% ‘rulers’ who caused this, do not blame an entire race of people for something you probably engage in, being statism.
January 24th, 2024
This is a good topic for a book to examine. As a libertarian socialist I think land and the resources it holds should be communally owned.
January 2nd, 2025
Winchester’s books are great 👍🏻 Pacific is enthralling and have heard good things about this
January 2nd, 2025
People’s land not peoples’ land. People is a plural already, the apostrophe goes before the s @koloko
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