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Title: Not well written
Review: This book presents a lot of information, but no discernible thème. The author doesn't tie the information together with an opinion of why something is good or bad. For example, Montana is poorly suited for agriculture; the rivers are fouled with fertilizer runoff & salinization caused by agriculture; outsiders have bought up farmland and converted to estates. Does the author propose that the last item is a good thing or a bad thing? Why? He also relates the transition, in a later chapter, of primitive island society changing from inherited hierarchical leadership to leadership by victorious warlords. What's the point? I have no notion that one is more desirable than the other, and the author gives me no understanding of why this transition is significant.
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