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Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.

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Preface, by Senator Dan McCorquodale Fast Fish in America: An Introduction 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York 6. Paper Moon: A Conclusion

Slide Mountain Or the Folly of Owning Nature

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 07/11/1996
      ISBN13: 9780520207097, 978-0520207097
      ISBN10: 0520207092
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      Book Synopsis
      Tours America to explore some of the more unusual dilemmas that have arisen in our struggle to possess nature. This book recounts the battle for three thousand acres of land the river carved from a Nebraska Indian reservation and deposited in Iowa. It illuminates what it means to live in a culture of property where everything must have an owner.

      Table of Contents
      Preface, by Senator Dan McCorquodale Fast Fish in America: An Introduction 1. Blackbird's Ghost: Real Estate and Other Fantasies 2. Identity Crisis in Bayou Country 3. Notes from Underground: The Private Life of Water 4. Cloudbusting in Fulton County 5. Three-D Deeds: The Rise of Air Rights in New York 6. Paper Moon: A Conclusion

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