land tenure

"Lifelong traveler, hitchhiker, and roamer Ken Ilgunas writes a witty, passionate, and utterly convincing manifesto that radically reconsiders our current understanding of private property and boldly proposes opening up North America's beautiful, vast, and off-limits countryside."--Publisher.

In the Great Field, bounded on three sides by a broad bend in a river, on the other side by wilderness, there are many tents, and inside those tents are people hoping for the promise of great days in the future. However, with the arrival of more people setting up camp in the lush pastures, resources becomes scarce, emotions run high, and change threatens the delectate balance of the Great Field.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.

A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.

In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.

This is a novel about the pioneers of New South Wales. It is the "story of those who wrested a new life from the alien terrain of Australia and its native people."--inside book jacket.

Describes the geological makeup of Earth and the ecosystems it supports; discusses issues that affect the land, including population growth, mining, landfills, pollution, erosion; and explains how people can help manage and preserve land.