A leading environmental thinker explores how people might begin to heal their fractured and contentious relationship with the land and with each other. From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Purdy shows how the land has always united and divided Americans.

"A profound meditation for our heedless era."—Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History“A soulful work. . . . Purdy believes that reckoning with climate change demands a deeper and more comprehensive overhaul of our infrastructure, and This Land Is Our Land is an invitation to imagine the new world—and the new society—that this overhaul could produce.”—Eric Klinenberg, New York Review of Books“[A reminder] of just how capable human beings are of remaking the world, when it suits them.”—Rachel Riederer, New Yorker“A book to read now and to think from. . . . A call to action.”—Aaron Bady, The Nation"This Land Is Our Land is a short book of great power by an exceptional writer and thinker. Challenging, dismaying, rigorous, inspiring, this is an urgent and important work about nature, land, and people for our Anthropocene moment."—Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey