![]() ![]() The last is a comprehensive history of how we lost our rights to land, from William the Conqueror to the modern day.Īt long last, the gates to the English garden of nature writing are being prised open by a new generation of talent from communities previously marginalised from both the countryside and the publishing industry. Shoard worked for several years for CPRE, the countryside charity, and was fully integrated into the system of land ownership in England and yet, or thus, wrote three excoriating books about its iniquities: The Theft of the Countryside, Right to Roam, and This Land Is Our Land. Ask any land rights campaigner, and the book that inspired them was Marion Shoard’s This Land Is Our Land. Andro Linklater’s Owning the Earth deals with the issue on a global level, and Guy Shrubsole’s excellent Who Owns England? focuses on this country. There are many books that shine a light on the otherwise unmentioned elephant in the room of writing about English nature: that we are allowed access to so little of it. ![]()
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