Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile

by John Hanson Mitchell

Overview

“Ceremonial time” occurs when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ritual dance, this escape from linear time is the vehicle for John Mitchell’s extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he traces the life of a single square mile in New England, from the last ice age through years of human history, including bear shamans, colonists, witches, local farmers, and encroaching industrial “parks.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611684933
Publisher:	University Press of New England
Publication date:	08/16/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	222
Lexile:	1290L (what's this?)
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

JOHN HANSON MITCHELL, winner of the 1994 John Burroughs Essay Award, is the author of numerous books. Ceremonial Time is the first in a series of titles in the Scratch Flat Chronicles. His newest book is An Eden of Sorts: A Natural History of My Feral Garden.

Table of Contents

Scratch Flat • Cast of Characters • Map of Scratch Flat • Preface to the 2013 Edition • Ceremonial Time • The Kingdom of Ice • After the Deluge • Night on Forge Pond • Archaic Interlude Eating Scratch Flat • A Woodland Nation • The White Witch • Time Trav

Editorial Reviews

“Astonishing immediacy . . . as though Sherlock Holmes had set out to verify Grey’s musings in his country churchyard. . . . An unqualified success . . . I can think of no book that provides so personal and yet so comprehensive a view of America, past, present, and potentially, future.”—New York Times Book Review

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