Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile - Softcover

Mitchell, John Hanson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201149370 ISBN 13: 9780201149371

Publisher: Counterpoint, 1997

Synopsis

Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Usually experienced only during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the theme of this book, which traces the life on a single spot in New England from the last ice age through years of Indians, shamans, and bears, to the colonists, witches and farmers, and now the encroaching parks.

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN HANSON MITCHELL, winner of the 1994 John Burroughs Essay Award, is the author of numerous books. Ceremonial Time is the first in a series of titles in the Scratch Flat Chronicles. His newest book is An Eden of Sorts: A Natural History of My Feral Garden.

Review:

“Astonishing immediacy . . . as though Sherlock Holmes had set out to verify Grey’s musings in his country churchyard. . . . An unqualified success . . . I can think of no book that provides so personal and yet so comprehensive a view of America, past, present, and potentially, future.”—New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0201149370
• ISBN 13: 9780201149371
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240