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Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the New Edition; Place; Pilgrimage; MILE ONE: Prospect Hill; MILE TWO: Providence Hill; MILE THREE: Vine Brook; MILE FOUR: Nonset Brook; MILE FIVE: Nashoba Brook; MILE SIX: North Street; MILE SEVEN: Nagog; MILE EIGHT: Castle Rock; MILE NINE: Spencer Brook Marsh; MILE TEN: Thoreau Country; MILE ELEVEN: Estabrook; MILE TWELVE: Mink Pond; MILE THIRTEEN: Punkatasset; MILE FOURTEEN: The Bridge; MILE FIFTEEN: Shambhala; Epilogue. |
Summary |
JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of five books based on a single square mile known as Scratch Flat, as well as two travel books and the biography of the early African American landscape photographer Robert A. Gilbert. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for his nature essays, Mitchell was founder and editor of Sanctuary magazine, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society. In 2000 he won the New England Book Award in nonfiction for his Scratch Flat series. He lives in Littleton, Massachusetts, the location of Scratch Flat. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862 -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862. |
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Massachusetts -- Walden Woods. |
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Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Concord Region (Town)
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Natural history. |
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Massachusetts -- Concord Region (Town) |
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Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Walking -- Massachusetts -- Concord Region (Town)
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Walking. |
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Walking -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Walden Woods.
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Concord Region (Mass. : Town) -- Description and travel.
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Walden Woods (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
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Authors, American -- Homes and haunts. |
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TRAVEL. |
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Authors, American. |
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TRAVEL -- General. |
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Homes. |
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Intellectual life. |
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Travel. |
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NATURE / General. |
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1800-1899 |
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Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Mitchell, John Hanson. Walking towards walden : a pilgrimage in search of place. Hanover, New Hampshire ; London, [England] : University Press of New England, ©2015 299 pages 9781611687217 |
ISBN |
9781611687767 (electronic book) |
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1611687764 (electronic book) |
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9781611687217 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1611687217 |
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