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An old barn near Sandy Neck on Cape Cod, Massachusetts in December 2012. BP Miiller (CC0)
Simon Winchester is a British journalist and best-selling author who spent decades on the road before finally buying a small farm in the Berkshires. The experience led to his book “Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World."