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John Hanson Mitchell
An exploration of the various systems of land control and the evolution of private property
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The unlikely story of how formal Italian Renaissance gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness
On a fifteen-mile bushwhack, exploring the whole idea of place
In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began land takings for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, in the Swift River Valley. Unknown to the authorities was the fact that, subsisting in…
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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.
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Instead of travelling to remote, untamed parts of the world in his search for the essence of wilderness, the American nature writer, John Hanson Mitchell, ends up exploring the green…
This is an account of the life on a single spot in New England from the last ice age through years of Indians, shamans, and bears, to the colonists, witches…
A magical book that turns one modest square mile of exurban land into the most remarkably fascinating place
Now back in print, Living at the End of Time is the story of a Thoreauvian experiment in simple living undertaken in the midst of the fast-paced electronic age
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. The journey is interspersed…
John Hanson Mitchell recounts his time in the isolated backcountry of Corsica in 1962. While working (illegally) at the Rose Cafe in Ile Rouse, Mitchell spent his days observing the…
Revisiting the river’s oxbows, bends, and marshes over the course of a year, this book combines a natural history of Beaver Brook with a study of the people who lived…
In the mid 1970s, John Hanson Mitchell discovered over 2,000 antique glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Massachusetts, the work of a little-known African American…
The story of how land can blossom-literally-with proper management.
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…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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James Archibald Mitchell
1915 to 1918 was an unsettled time in China; there were warring rebels and bandits all across the land. But James Archibald Mitchell was not deterred and traveled widely. Mitchell…
