John Hanson Mitchell

	The Paradise of all these Parts (Coming in September 2008) Beacon Press 2008	"A wonderful piece of work: lively, thought-provoking and totally absorbing. The city of Boston has been chopped to pieces, riddled with tunnels, and surrounded by fill, but as Mitchell reveals in The Paradise of All These Parts, it is still a place of wonder." -Nathaniel Philbrick, author of Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
	The Rose Cafe: Love and War in Corsica Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007	"The juxtaposition of the beautiful island's vitality and the horrors it so recently survived are captured well in Mitchell's precise and evocative prose, making this well worth reading for fans of memoirs, Old World European culture and WWII narratives." --- Publisher’s Weekly (Starred Review)
	Looking for Mr Gilbert: The Reimagined Life of an African American Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005	“Mitchell tells a remarkable story of the discovery and authentication of a hitherto invisible African American life…. Mitchell does so with warmth and wit, and he opens our eyes to an important figure in American photography.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.
	Following the Sun: From Spain to the Hebrides Counterpoint, 2002	"… The author is a sensualist, a lover of literature, deep time, and old night, and his ramble is tailor-made to feed these passions. ...it's his willingness to stop and smell the flowers that makes him such a companionable writer...Few won't wish they were riding in Mitchell's slipstream, sharing in all the sun and stories and places, the wine and the food." --- Kirkus
	The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness Counterpoint, 2001	“I cannot imagine anyone reading this fine little book without beginning to form some really big plans. “ ---- The Boston Globe
		The Scratch Flat Sagas
	Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land Perseus Books, 1998	“The beauty of this book… lies in Mitchell’s intimacy with the tract of land … the depth of the setting deepens the reader’s feel for the humans that populate it” --- Verlyn Kilnkenborg in Audubon Magazine
	Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgimage in Search of Place Perseus Books, 1995	“This is surely John Mitchell’s best book, and he is one of the most intriguing, original nature writers alive. It’s a jaunt through history and ecology, a spirited personal memoir, a saunter in Thoreau’s richly diverse sense of the word. Top-notch.” ---Edward Hoagland
	Living at the End of Time Houghton Mifflin, 1990	"…Mitchell knows his plants and animals as certainly as any expert ecologist. But he stalks different game. He’s after the shadows of older ways of seeing, something latent in the antique term `natural history’ but deeper.” ---- New York Times Book Review
	A Field Guide to your Own Backyard Countryman Press, 1985	“… This well-written book goes beyond identification Its purpose is to open our eyes to the galaxy of living and growing things nearby – lowly lichens, crawly cutworms, attractive roadside flowers nocturnal raccoons, and even birds of prey migrating overhead.” --- Roger Tory Peterson
	Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile Perseus Books, 1984	“Scratch Flat is and was the world … I can think of no other book that provides so personal and yet so comprehensive a view of America, past, present, and potentially, future.” --- New York Times Book Review. Editor’s Choice.