{"product_id":"ceremonial-time-ceremonial-time-fifteen-thousand-years-on-one-square-mile-fifteen-thousand-years-on-one-square-mile-paperback","title":"Ceremonial Time Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Hanson Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Hanson Mitchell\u003c\/b\u003e's work is focused on a square mile tract of land known as Scratch Flat, located about thirty-five miles north-west of Boston. Mitchell has used this anomalous landscape of rolling hills, farms, forests and encroaching suburbs to explore his continuing interest in natural and human history and the whole question of place in human cultures, both native and European. Best known of this series of books is the first, \u003ci\u003eCeremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice. The latest book in the group is \u003ci\u003eAn Eden of Sorts: The Natural History of My Feral Garden\u003c\/i\u003e. All of these books have been collected together in a series known as The Scratch Flat Chronicles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51760871407904,"sku":"9780201149371","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c113b21123288f1b81c8135cd1b2ddcc.webp?v=1780192452","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/ceremonial-time-ceremonial-time-fifteen-thousand-years-on-one-square-mile-fifteen-thousand-years-on-one-square-mile-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}