The Book of Trespass | Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NONFICTION 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2022Brilliant passionate and political . . . The Book of Trespass will make you see landscapes differently Robert MacfarlaneA remarkable and truly radical work loaded with resonant truths George MonbiotThe vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By law of trespass we are excluded from 92 per cent of the land and 97 per cent of its waterways blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned. But behind them lies a story of enclosure exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day.The Book of Trespass takes us on a journey over the walls of England into the thousands of square miles of rivers woodland lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. By trespassing the land of the media magnates Lords politicians and private corporations that own England