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The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes

6 reviews

ashwaar's review against another edition

adventurous informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Classism, Colonisation, Drug use, and Slavery

lynxpardinus's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional informative reflective

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexism, Slavery, Violence, Misogyny, Police brutality, Racism, Xenophobia, Confinement, and Classism

Moderate: Animal death, Gun violence, Racial slurs, Rape, Religious bigotry, War, Genocide, Homophobia, Child death, Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Lesbophobia, Antisemitism, Gaslighting, Medical content, Murder, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Animal cruelty

Minor: Excrement, Fatphobia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Alcohol, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Incest

woweewhoa's review against another edition

informative slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Animal death, Sexism, and Racism

Moderate: Racial slurs and Drug use

Minor: Fatphobia and Ableism

lasunflower's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative medium-paced

4.5

A very well written and informative book. Hayes transitions seamlessly between his walks and commentary on land ownership in England. 
I only took off .5 stars due to some small misinformation. 

E.g. He attests a quote is from William the Conqueror himself, but the quote is actually from Orderic Vitalis' chronicle, written around 50 years later. Chroniclers often fabricated speech. It would have been better for Hayes to say that something 'like according to Orderic Vitalis, William said this...' I am not convinced that the Norman Conquest changed as much as of English land ownership as he makes out, though certainly it did change things somewhat.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Animal death, Colonisation, Slavery, Racism, and Xenophobia

charley0796's review against another edition

adventurous funny informative lighthearted medium-paced

3.75

This was a really interesting book about trespassing throughout history and parts of Europe. I loved the interweaving of understanding the racial and gender based rules with classism to explain how the ruling class stay in power.
It took me about 100 pages to get into his narrative style, it’s more of a ‘I’m on a mini adventure and whilst we are walking I’ll tell you a story of ownership’ - sometimes this was helpful and made what could be a dull book funny and reflective, but I found myself frustrated in parts at how I was reading how he was still on his way after 50 or so pages explaining something.
I found it a really powerful read, until the second to last chapter. In this I spotted his reference to the famous Zimbardo prison study as the Milgram prison study. This destroyed a lot of the faith I had in the book being well researched and trust worthy - much as others have cited below for historical inaccuracies. As such, I’ve knocked  a star for these important errors and another 1/4 for my slow interest (though that might be more me than him!)

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use

halftimelord's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use