Following the Sun by John Hanson Mitchell
John Hanson Mitchell tells of his 1500 mile ride on a trusty old Peugeot bicycle from the port of Cadiz to just below the Arctic Circle. He follows the European spring up through southern Spain, the wine and oyster country near Bordeaux, to Versailles (the palace of the Sun King), Wordsworth's Lake District, precipitous Scottish highlands and finally to a Druid temple on the island of Lewis in the Hebrides, a place where Midsummer is celebrated in pagan majesty as the near-midnight sun dips and then quickly rises over the horizon.
“It’s his willingness to stop and smell the flowers that makes him such a companionable writer” —Kirkus Reviews
“If there is anything he enjoys more than the heathen moment, it is attending the song of a stonechat, the chance to take a snooze in a field of wildflowers, an idle glass of wine.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Mitchell deftly proves that his is a universal topic, crossing borders and topics and time.” —The Boston Globe
“If there is anything he enjoys more than the heathen moment, it is attending the song of a stonechat, the chance to take a snooze in a field of wildflowers, an idle glass of wine.” —San Francisco Chronicle
“Mitchell deftly proves that his is a universal topic, crossing borders and topics and time.” —The Boston Globe
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 | 9781504009515 |
| ISBN 10 | 1504009517 |
| Title | Following the Sun |
| Author | John Hanson Mitchell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Open Road Media |
| Year published | 2015-05-07 |
| Number of pages | 290 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |