Ebook {Epub PDF} The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin

 · The Land of Little Rain () is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the extent to Brand: Applewood Books. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The land of little rain (), Austin's first book, focuses on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. The land of little rain, Summary Mary Hunter Austin () moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life.

Abstract. Mary Hunter Austin () was the author of 34 books and more than articles, essays, short stories, and poems on such diverse subjects as anthropology, folklore, politics, metaphysics, and bltadwin.ru was an ardent feminist, championing women's suffrage and birth control, and a staunch environmental advocate, devoted to sustainable development, local control of natural. Summary. Mary Austin confesses that she likes how Native American (called "Indians" by the author throughout the book, in keeping with the usage of the era) tribes give one another names. Each person is known by a phrase that "best expresses him" to the person who names him. Because of this, she declares that rarely in her book will she use geographical names as they are commonly known. Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, - Aug) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain () describes the fauna, flora, and people - as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality - of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California.

The Land of Little Rain is a collection of essays on flora and fauna of the American Southwest. Author Mary Austin begins by describing the unbearable heat in this area but emphasizes that despite the hot climate and the tough environment it is worth living there because the solitude provides a peaceful state of mind. Austin is fascinated by the animals who found their place in nature there, with their almost magical power of finding water. Land of Little Rain is Mary Austin's account of the deserts of the American Southwest. Her text is as spare and secretly seductive as the deserts of which she writes. Austin lived, for a time, in Independence, CA, until the water literally went south. Complex woman; complex environment; straight-up text. PREFACE TCONFESStoagreatlikingforthe-*Indianfashionofname-giving:every manknownbythatphrasewhichbestex- bltadwin.ru hemaybeMighty-Hunter,orMan.