Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Usually experienced only during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the theme of this book, which traces 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 and farmers, and now the encroaching parks.

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile

Business & Money

MITCHELL, John Hanson

Economics

Catapult

Describes the history, plants and animals, and meditations encountered along a fifteen mile walk through Concord, Mass.

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Perseus Books

Traces the evolution of the idea of private ownership of land from the beginning of British common law up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions

Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land

A World Atlas of Military History, 1945-1984 (A Da Capo paperback)

A World Atlas Of Military History 1945-1984

History

Hartman, Tom

Military

Da Capo Press

Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Experienced only rarely, usually during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the gift of John Mitchells extraordinary writing. In this, his most magical book, he traces 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 and farmers, and now the encroaching parks.

Ceremonial time: Fifteen thousand years on one square mile

Americas

Anchor Press/Doubleday

Living at the End of Time

First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped dust jacket. Very clean blue boards with darker blue cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. As new condition. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean and bright, with clean endpapers. No names, writing or marks. 223 pages. Clean bright dust jacket is unchipped, no wear, no tears, not price clipped. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A lively account of author's life close to nature in his cabin in the woods following his divorce.

Biographies & Memoirs

Houghton

Tells the experiences of a man who built a cabin on an undeveloped plot of land in the woods in New England, and lived without running water or electricity, among owls, deer, and foxes

Houghton/Mifflin

Traces changes from the retreat of the glacier through the settlement of Indians and Europeans, to the Industrial Revolution and beyond

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years [Jul 01, 1985] Mitchell, John Hanson

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years

WARNER BOOKS

How did we come to adopt the strange notion of owning land?an exploration by one of Americas finest nature writers.. In this richly entertaining story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions, John Mitchell reveals how we came to accept a system of private ownership. Building upon the heartbreaking story of a tribe of praying Indians who bought into the colonists legal system and settled their own 2000-acre tract, only to be dispossessed and herded into a detention camp, he explores every variation on this important theme. In this richly entertaining story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions, John Mitchell reveals how we came to accept a system of private ownership. Building upon the heartbreaking story of a tribe of praying Indians who bought into the colonists legal system and settled their own 2000-acre tract, only to be dispossessed and herded into a detention camp, he explores every variation on this important theme. An hilarious visit to the Mitchell ancestral manor in Scotland, a brilliant panorama of the single vast grid in

Trespassing: An Inquiry Into the Private Ownership of Land

Counterpoint

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Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile

Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place

Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land

A World Atlas Of Military History 1945-1984

Ceremonial time: Fifteen thousand years on one square mile

Living at the End of Time

Living at the End of Time

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years

Trespassing: An Inquiry Into the Private Ownership of Land