Discovering African Drum Rhythms by John Mitchell

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.