The Last of the Bird People |
The Story: In 1928, Massachusetts water authorities began
land takings for the construction of the Quabbin Reservoir, in the Swift River
Valley. Unknown to the authorities was the fact that, subsisting in the more
remote, forested tracts of the valley, there was a secretive band of mixed-race
hunter-gatherers who had been there for over ten generations. Mitchell's book is
the story of the exodus of this tribe and the young anthropologist who first
discovers them. The novel takes the form of a legal deposition, taken at the
Everglades City Court House, in 1929, concerning the fate of these people.
John Hanson Mitchell has been called "a unique,
delightful, and absolutely essential voice," by the New York Times Book
Review; "A Thoreauvian wanderer, an engaging writer," by the Washington
Post Book World and "a natural story teller..." by the Boston
Globe.
The e-book edition will be available June 20th,
2012 at Amazon and Apple i-books. The paperback edition will be
available everywhere November 1.
John Hanson Mitchell (http://johnhansonmitchell.com/) is the
author of Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on Once Square Mile
(Counterpoint) and eight other books on cultural and environmental history,
the most recent of which is The Paradise of All These Parts, A Natural
History of Boston (Beacon Press). He is also the creator and editor of the
award-winning magazine, "Sanctuary", published by the Massachusetts Audubon
Society.
Title: The Last of the Bird People
Print ISBN:
978-0-9827115-7-6
e-book ISBN: 978-1-4763928-4-4
Words: approximately
70,000
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012938511
Mitchell's publication is the tale of the exodus of this group and the youthful anthropologist who first finds them.
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