Ceremonial time: Fifteen thousand years on one square mile - Softcover
Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the gift of John Mitchells extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he 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.
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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.
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“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
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- PublisherAnchor Press/Doubleday
- Publication date1984
- ISBN 10 0385191944
- ISBN 13 9780385191944
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages222
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Gordon Morrison (Illustrator) (illustrator). First Edition, First Thus. Paperback. BRAND NEW Copy w/trace cover wear. Classic, poetic narrative of local history of a square mile of land in the environs of Littleton (near Concord of the Rude Bridge), Massachuetts. Written by editor of MA Audubon Society's Sanctuary magazine John Hanson Mitchell, the book earned its author an honorary doctorate from Fitchburg State Univ, and spawned the "Scratch Flat Sagas" which use the same tract of land introduced in this volume to contemplate land usage in our time. The narrative is of "a country within a country, a single square mile of land in eastern Massachusetts that was known as Scratch Flat in the nineteenth century" graced by a tangled grove of twelve old plum trees planted sometime in the 1920s. A brief introduction to Scratch Patch (Location: Nowhere. Everywhere. 35 miles west of Boston) and a Cast of Characters precede a collection of 14 essays, exploring themes of time, place, and the endurance of the natural world within a pied-a-terre. Seller Inventory # 008885
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