Cattle baron Nat Erdlatter has built his empire by taking what he wants, then ruthlessly holding on to it. Even now, with the Homestead Act encouraging people to claim their own portions of land, he believes that his needs take precedence over the government's decrees. But times are changing, and the citizens of nearby Enterprise are angered by his latest callous act - none more so than his ranch hands Clem Rawlings and Gus Farley, who become embroiled...

Written by a well-connected journalist, this volume offers an entertaining perspective on the life of the eccentric Victorian philanthropist, the soap king William Hulme Lever.

The vast majority of our country is entirely unknown to us because we are banned from setting foot on it. 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. But behind them lies a story of enclosure, exploitation and dispossession of public rights whose effects last to this day. 'The Book of Trespass' takes us on a journey over the walls of England, into the thousands...