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In âLand,â Simon Winchester looks at what the hunger for land ownership has wrought
By Eric Liebetrau Globe Correspondent,Updated January 14, 2021, 4:35 p.m.
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Few authors of narrative nonfiction have ranged across the global landscape more widely than Simon Winchester, whether exploring the oceans (âAtlanticâ and âPacificâ), earthquakes (âA Crack in the Edge of the Worldâ), the Yangtze River (âThe River at the Center of the Worldâ), the Balkans (âThe Fracture Zoneâ), or âKrakatoa.â In his latest engrossing voyage, the author turns to the land itself, covering a sizable portion of the 37 billion acres that compose the Earth.