The Trespasser's Companion

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We may be excluded from the majority of our land, no less than 92% in England, but bestselling nature writer and trespasser Nick Hayes shows how we can reclaim our lost connection. 'The Book of Trespass' takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands of square miles of rivers, woodland, lakes and meadows that are blocked from public access. 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. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. 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. 'The Trespasser's Companion' is a rallying cry for greater public access to nature and a gently seditious guide to how to get it: by trespassing. 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.