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Pdf free^^ This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American WestZIPPdf free^^ This Land:How Cowboys,Capitalism, andCorruption areRuining the AmericanWest ZIPDescriptionPraise forThis Land:'Ketchamâ€s important book is an urgent cry to expose the greed,stubbornness and neglect that is harming public lands . . . he has written a psalm to nature and amanifesto to stop the forces that are threatening a territory that stretches from Colorado to thePacific Coast.'Â â€”Los Angeles Times'A rollicking and unsparing look at the threats to our publiclands . . . part reportage, part history, part backcountry travelogue, the book is full of righteousanger and reverence for wild spaces . . . brings the fighting spirit and conservation vision of greatwriters like Edward Abbey, Rachel Carson, and Bernard DeVoto into the 21st century.'Â â€”Outside'[An] encyclopedic exposÃ© . . . [Ketcham] uses darkly humorous stories to illuminate thepolitical, ideological, and physical threats to Americaâ€s parks, forests, rivers, and monuments.'â€”The New Yorker'Ketcham is a muckraking activist . . . his brutally clear reporting supports hisview . . . This Land is a catalog of depredations wrought by grazers, drillers, miners, loggers andthe holders of public office who abet them, betraying their duty to the public trust in favor of moneyand political power . . . [Ketchamâ€s] book is ultimately a call to arms.' â€”The New York TimesBook Review'Raw and unrestrained, Ketcham's work goes to the heart of this increasingly virulentnational crisis.' â€”2019 National Outdoor Book AwardsÂ (Honorable Mention, NaturalHistory Literature)'Ferocious . . . [a] stunning book . . . What makesÂ This LandÂ so pressing andso painful is that it drains any reservoirs of political naÃ¯vetÃ© you may have left. It reminds usthat myths . . . are the collective lies we tell ourselves to keep from seeing what is actuallyhappening . . .Â This LandÂ is a book that will help us tell the story truthfully, a book for the hardtimes now that are a prelude to harder times ahead.'Â â€”Verlyn Klinkenborg,Â The AmericanScholarÂ 'A searing account of the use and abuse of Americaâ€s public lands . . . an eyeopenerin the tradition of Rachel Carsonâ€s Silent Spring.' â€”The Denver Post'This LandÂ is astriking cry of anguish . . . Chronicling a history of subjugation beginning 200 years ago, the bookoffers infuriating evidence of a broken system leading to a broken ecosystem.'Â â€”Salt Lake CityWeekly'This book minces no words on how environmental deterioration has created a situationthat will make our descendants wonder what corporations were thinking about besides makingmoney.' â€”Roundup MagazineÂ 'As Christopher Ketcham says so eloquently in these pages,the vast public lands are perhaps America's greatest legacy, a landscape of the scale necessary tohelp preserve the diversity of life on a hot planet in a tough century. That's why we need to pay
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