Living at the End of Time - Softcover

Mitchell, John Hanson

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9780395581216: Living at the End of Time

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ISBN 10: 0395581214 ISBN 13: 9780395581216

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1991

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Tells the experiences of a man who built a cabin on an undeveloped plot of land in the woods in New England, and lived without running water or electricity, among owls, deer, and foxes

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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.

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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.

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