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88/100Author:
Simon Winchester
Publisher:
Harper
Date:
January 19, 2021
The prolific popular history author explores the notion of propertyâman's proprietary relationship with the landâand how it has shaped peoples and civilizations and tells us something about the future.
What The Reviewers Say
... engrossing.
Winchester is good at...adding dashes of drama, narrative, indignation and, above all, connection to disparate historical accounts. He does the same with the brutal dispossession of native populations in North America.
Winchester is a master at capturing the Old World wonder and romance of exploits like Struve’s.
... not a polemic, as much as one might sometimes wish it were. Like a lot of journalists-turned-historians, Winchester is a quick study, and there is an astounding amount of information in Land, much of it revealing, although it can also feel somewhat random. As he roams his seemingly boundless terrain, Winchester provides us with set piece after set piece. And yet, despite the epic continents-and-centuries scale he tries to take on, his approach at its best is often miniaturist, as it has been with perhaps greater success in some of his previous books.
