The Trespasser's Companion

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Interwoven are testimonials from expert contributors - farmers and landworkers, activists and authors - each with deeply personal stories of what a connection to nature means for them. A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is England through the eyes of a trespasser. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. By trespassing the land of the media magnates, Lords, politicians and private corporations that own England, Nick Hayes argues that the root of social inequality is the uneven distribution of land. The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. By engaging with the land through craft and learning and by caring for it, our relationship with the countryside will be better for us, and better for nature. By law of trespass, we are excluded from 92% of the land and 97% of its waterways, blocked by walls whose legitimacy is rarely questioned.