Books : Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
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by: John H. Mitchell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 917.444
EAN: 9780201154870
ISBN: 0201154870
Label: Counterpoint
Manufacturer: Counterpoint
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: March 11, 1997
Publisher: Counterpoint
Sales Rank: 1612753
Studio: Counterpoint
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Rating:  - Rambling Ramble
This book chronicles a day-long walk Mitchell took with a pair of friends back in the early 1990s from Westford to Concord, MA. The starting point for the ramble was the burial site of Henry Sinclair, who, according to legend, carved an armorial in stone near the site some 100 years before the arrival of Columbus. The small group of travelers wanted to experience, as much as possible the kind of terrain and sights Sinclair might have encountered, so they chose a route that avoided roads and settlements ... Read More
Rating: - sunny and surly sauntering
Of all Mitchell's works, all uniformly very good and engaging, this one has always had a personal resonance for me. In the spirit of Thoreau himself (Himself?), Mitchell and chums saunter along on their pilgrimage to make sense of place, filled with far-ranging thoughts and comments about their neighbours and civilization in general. Walden Pond continues to draw us in, both for it beauty and historical importance to environmental thought. This book also draws us in as participants on that internal and external ... Read More
Rating:  - A thoroughly irritating book
Let me start by saying that I am a big fan of Mitchell, and I really enjoyed CERMONIAL TIME. This lead me to look forward to the arrival of WALKING... and at one level I was not disappointed. AS in all his work Mitchell is adept at weaving together diverse strands of history, culture, and place and to get us thinking about the landscape in new ways. His taste in friends (or at least his way of introducing us to his friends) however seems somewhat flawed. While his other books are more solitary ruminations on ideas ... Read More
Rating:  - Mitchell's Multi-layered Cultural History
These 300 pages describe both a physical journey, lasting but a day, overlaid with historical, architectural, artistic, anthropological, and literary musings of a richly cultivated mind. He writes, for example, upon viewing a stark landscape, "...I made the connection...This hollow...looks very much like the fourteenth-century Tuscan forest as envisioned by nineteenth-century French illustrator Gustave Dore."
Making connections is Mitchell's forte. The narrative of a tramp through woods and sloughs brings ... Read More
Rating: - Walking towards Walden
The readers join Mitchell and his friends as they walk through an historical and artistic region of our nation. We discuss the history, nature, the people and the sights as we meet others along the walk. We walk along with Thoreau as well as Mitchell's fascinating friends. There are few books that I've enjoyed as much as this friendly hike. Mitchell is one of best of the current nature writers because he becomes a participant with the reader in enjoying nature and history.
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