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Legends of the Common Stream John Hanson Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, John Hanson, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mitchell, John Hanson.
- Mitchell, John Hanson--Homes and haunts.
- Natural history.
- Massachuset Indians.
- Homes.
- Folklore.
- Massachuset Indians--Massachusetts.
- Folklore--Massachusetts.
- Natural history--Beaver Brook (N.H. and Mass.).
- Massachusetts.
- Beaver Brook (N.H. and Mass.)--History.
- Beaver Brook (N.H. and Mass.).
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "For over twenty years, John Hanson Mitchell has visited Beaver Brook almost daily. This small, slow-flowing Massachusetts stream was of vital importance for early settlers and an indispensable resource for the Native peoples who lived and fished along its shores, but it has been largely forgotten in our own time. Revisiting the river's oxbows, bends, and marshes over the course of a year, Legends of the Common Stream combines a natural history of Beaver Brook with a study of the people who lived on this land and a meandering, but stunning, examination of the myths and legends that can help us to better understand humanity's relationship to the natural world. While Mitchell never leaves the brook's shores, he draws from a range of traditions and takes readers on excursions to regions and cultures across the globe and across time, making the case that our contemporary separation from nature goes hand in hand with our alienation from the world of myth. This book seeks to restore these broken relationships and offers the reminder that while cultures may come and go, the stream goes on forever"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The deer moon
- The hunger moon
- The snow moon
- The worm moon
- The egg moon
- The flower moon
- The strawberry moon
- The buck moon
- The thunder moon
- The harvest moon
- The hunter's moon
- The beaver moon
- The cold moon.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781625345820
- 1625345828
- OCLC:
- 1236897352
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