Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by Mitchell, John H.

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780201154870)

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Format: Paperback
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Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by Mitchell, John H.

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

$17.95
Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by Mitchell, John H.

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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An exploration of sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters.

Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author s fifteen-mile bushwhack through woods, backyards, and marshes from a hilltop in Westford, Massachusetts, to the town of Concord, Massachusetts trespassing all along the way. A mock epic, complete with encounters with armed mercenaries and vicious dogs, the book covers all the aspects of place art, literature, myth, and even music.

Author: John H. Mitchell
ISBN-10: 0201154870
ISBN-13: 9780201154870
Publisher: Catapult
Language: English
Published: 03/11/1997
Pages: 316
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.73lbs
Size: 8.15h x 5.32w x 0.86d
By John H. Mitchell
By John H. Mitchell
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John Hanson Mitchell's work is focused on a square mile tract of land known as Scratch Flat, located about thirty-five miles north-west of Boston. Mitchell has used this anomalous landscape of rolling hills, farms, forests and encroaching suburbs to explore his continuing interest in natural and human history and the whole question of place in human cultures, both native and European. Best known of this series of books is the first, Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, a New York Times Editors' Choice. The latest book in the group is An Eden of Sorts: The Natural History of My Feral Garden. All of these books have been collected together in a series known as The Scratch Flat Chronicles.

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