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“john hanson mitchell”

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  • The Last of the Bird People

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings for the largest public works project in the United States at the time, the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, in the Swift River Valley. What the authorities did not realize was that, living in the more remote, forested tracts of the valley, there was a secretive band of mixed-race hunter-gatherers who had been subsisting, ... Read more

    $3.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Following the Sun

    A Bicycle Pilgrimage from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    Author John Hanson Mitchell recounts a marathon bicycle trek from Andalusia to the Outer Hebrides, tracing solar myths, sun cults, birds, and flowering plants all along the way. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rose Café

    Love and War in Corsica

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    This memoir of the author's brief sojourn working at a café and auberge in Corsica is populated with a questionable group of locals, fugitives, and escapists during the Algerian and Vietnam Wars. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking for Mr. Gilbert

    The Unlikely Life of the First African American Landscape Photographer

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    Looking for Mr. Gilbert is an account of the quest to uncover the heretofore unknown life of Robert A. Gilbert, an African American serving man who worked for the ornithologist William Brewster. A man of many talents, Gilbert went on to become the first African American landscape photographer. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garden at the End of Time

    Getting By in the Age of Climate Change

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    John Hanson Mitchell has long written about his garden outside of Boston, and about the plants and animals with whom he shares this land. In 2022, the United Nations and others started reporting the true severity of the climate crisis as the Earth passed a point of no return. All across the globe it was the worst year on record for climate-related disasters, including extinctions, deadly floods, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Living at the End of Time

    Two Years in a Tiny House

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John Hanson Mitchell tells how he set out to recreate Henry David Thoreau’s two years at Walden Pond in a replica of Thoreau’s cabin. Mitchell lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, in a tiny house not half a mile from a major highway and in the shadow of a massive new computer company. Nevertheless, his contact with wildlife, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Legends of the Common Stream

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    For over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, slow-flowing Massachusetts stream was of vital importance for early settlers and an indispensable resource for the Native peoples who lived and fished along its shores, but it has been largely forgotten in our own time. Revisiting the river's oxbows, bends, and marshes over the course of a year, Legends ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • A Field Guide to Your Own Back Yard

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    Here is a book to enhance our appreciation of the small citizens of the world and to introduce us to the neighbors we never knew we had, from spotted salamanders to meadow voles, from snowy tree crickets to ambrosia beetles, all living within steps of your door.“If there is grass and a few scraggling trees, there will be wildlife,” suggests John Hanson Mitchell, an internationally recognized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • An Eden of Sorts

    The Natural History of My Feral Garden

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    The story of how land can blossom—literally—with proper management.Twenty-five years ago Mitchell cut down a 1 1/2-acre stand of 75-year-old white pines and planted a garden in their place. AN EDEN OF SORTS is a history of the plants and animals that lived on the tract over the next decades, including two generations of half-wild children! What started out as a plot with no more that five or six ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Walking Towards Walden

    A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

    by John Hanson 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Wildest Place on Earth

    Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world’s first national park system. Told via Mitchell’s sometimes disastrous and humorous travels—from the gardens of southern Italy up through Tuscany and the lake island gardens—the book is filled with history, folklore, myths, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Trespassing

    An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land

    by John Hanson Mitchell ...
    Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature” (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild land controlled periodically by various Native American tribes became British crown land after 1654, ... Read more

    $11.59 USD