Walking Towards Walden by John H Mitchell

Walking Towards Walden by John H Mitchell

Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the 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.

The work of John Hanson Mitchell is focused on Scratch Flat, a square mile stretch of land approximately 35 miles north-west of Boston. Mitchell has used this strange terrain of rolling hills, farms, forests, and expanding suburbs to explore his ongoing fascination with nature and human history, as well as the notion of location in both native and European cultures. The first in the series, Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile, was named a New York Times Editors' Pick. An Eden of Sorts: The Natural History of My Feral Garden is the most recent addition to the series. The Scratch Flat Chronicles is a series that collects all of these books in one place.

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ISBN 13	9780201154870
ISBN 10	0201154870
Title	Walking Towards Walden
Author	John H Mitchell
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Counterpoint
Year published	1997-03-11
Number of pages	316
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