Living at the End of Time - Hardcover

MITCHELL, John Hanson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395445949 ISBN 13: 9780395445945

Publisher: Houghton, 1990

Synopsis

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean blue boards with darker blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. As new condition. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 223 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A lively account of author's life close to nature in his cabin in the woods following his divorce.

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of five books based on the single square mile known as Scratch Flat, as well as two travel books and the biography of the early African American photographer Robert A. Gilbert. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for his nature essays, he is also editor of Sanctuary magazine, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

From Library Journal:

Mitchell, editor of the National Audubon Society's Sanctuary magazine, writes prosaically of a year spent in a cabin in semi-wild Massachusetts. During the course of the year, he reads the journals of Thoreau, whom he calls "Henry," and he draws many obvious parallels between Thoreau's year at Walden Pond and his own time in self-imposed simplicity. Long sections of the book are devoted to Mitchell's brother and their father, both of whom kept journals, and both of whom Mitchell seeks to understand by musing about their writings. Mitchell brings a careful eye to the beauty that surrounds him but is prone to tangent-following and woolgathering, remaining a fairly mysterious character in his own book. Nice for large general-interest collections, but not for specialists or libraries on tight budgets.
- Mark L. Shelton, Columbus, Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0395445949
• ISBN 13: 9780395445945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 223