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Catskills: Land in the Sky

By: JOHN G. MITCHELL

Price: $8.00

Publisher: VIKING:

Seller ID: IM499277

ISBN: 0670208523

Binding: HC w/JA Large

Condition: VERY Good Condition

TRESPASSING : AN INQUIRY INTO THE PRIVAT

By: JOHN HANSON MITCHELL

Price: $7.75

Publisher: HARPER COLLINS TRADE DIVISION:

Seller ID: IM225676

ISBN: 0738201464

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: GOOD Condition

How did we come to adopt the strange notion of owning land?an exploration by one of Americas finest nature writers.. In this richly entertaining story that reaches back to the beginning of British common law and up to the most recent Supreme Court takings decisions, John Mitchell reveals how we came to accept a system of private ownership. Building upon the heartbreaking story of a tribe of praying Indians who bought into the colonists legal system and settled their own 2000-acre tract, only to be dispossessed and herded into a detention camp, he explores every variation on this important them...
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EXILE IN ALASKA

By: JOHN MITCHELL

Price: $7.55

Publisher: ACADEMY CHICAGO PUBLISHERS:

Seller ID: IM315965

ISBN: 0917635035

Binding: PB Trade

Condition: NEW

These stories carry the reader to an Alaska that lies at the end of homestead trails and fishing docks, people with gimpy fishermen, cannery workers up from California, and Mum and Dad 'slugging it out on the rockpile.' It's country that's both real and illusory, steeped in violence and forgiveness, mythic in its proportions. Mitchell has keen eye for natural details and an imagination that turns the dust of dirt roads and the fog of early mornings into magic curtains; you can never be sure what you'll find on the other side. It Alaska stands as a frontier dividing the commonplace from the dre...
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BEST OF SINGAPOREAN COOKING

By: JOHN MITCHELL

Price: $5.00

Publisher: WORLDWIDE MEDIA SERVICE:

Seller ID: IM320961

ISBN: 0948500069

Binding: PB Large