Following the Sun: Fron Spain to the Hebrides
Counterpoint,
2002

A Field Guide to your Own Backyard,
Countryman Press,
1985

Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Tousand Years on One Square Mile
Perseus Books,
1984

The Rose Cafe:
Love and War in Corsica
Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007

For nearly nine months in 1962,  Mitchell withdrew to the sensuous island of Corsica to work at an isolated café and inn on the outskirts of Ile Rousse on the island of Corsica as  a dishwasher and fish cleaner.  The work was non overbearing and he spent most of his time there attempting to  unearthed stories of inn guests, local resistance fighters, contrabandists  and other questionable characters that frequented the café. These included a regular group of local card players who appeared at the café each night,  an odd collection of continental types who had fallen under the island’s spell, a flighty Parisian student who spent her days preening and sunbathing on rocks above the green sea coves, and a gentleman of uncertain origins called only “le Baron”, by the locals who may or may not have played an important role in the French Resistance, and may or may not have been a forger and head of a smuggling ring. 

Nearly forty years later and now an award-winning author, Mitchell recounts this formative sojourn in The Rose Café: Love and War in Corsica. His distinctively polished prose creates a powerful sense of place that offers an insider’s vantage of Corsica and evokes the excitement and wonder of adventure.