Living at the End of Time: Two Years in a Tiny House [Paperback]

In this second book in his Scratch Flat Chronicles, John Hanson Mitchell tells how he set out to recreate Henry David Thoreaus two years at Walden Pond in a replica of Thoreaus cabin. Mitchell lived off the grid, without running water or electricity, in a tiny house not half a mile from a major highway and in the shadow of a massive new computer company. Nevertheless, his contact with wildlife, the changing seasons, and the natural world equaled and even surpassed Thoreaus. Hugely popular with the international community of Thoreau followers when it was first published, this book will now be essential reading for the growing community of people who are interested in living in a tiny house, fully experiencing the natural world, or finding self-sufficiency in an increasingly plugged-in society.

JOHN HANSON MITCHELL is the author of five books based on the single square mile known as Scratch Flat, as well as two travel books and the biography of the early African American photographer Robert A. Gilbert. A winner of the John Burroughs Award for his nature essays, he is also editor of Sanctuary magazine, published by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.

Preface to the New Edition Authors Note Uncommon Ground In Two Worlds Beside the Green Meadow Scythers Complaint The Interior River My Lady of the Squirrels Autumnal Tints The Green Man The Other Side Life on Earth Journals in Dreamtime? The Cruelest Month The Sea of Milk? Living at the End of Time Epilogue?