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Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was one of the early nature writers of the American Southwest. Her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the flora, fauna and people, as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality, of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. She was born in Carlinville, Illinois, the fourth of six children, and graduated from Blackburn College in 1888. Her family moved to California in the same year, establishing a homestead in the San Joaquin Valley. She married Stafford Wallace Austin in 1891 and for 17 years made a special study of Indian life in the Mojave Desert, the in…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84702-028-4
- EAN: 9781847020284
- Produktnummer: 33838737
- Verlag: Echo Lib
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 124 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.7 cm 192 g
- Auflage: Reprint of an E
- Gewicht: 192
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Mary Austin (1868-1934) was a prolific American novelist, playwright, essayist, and critic. Her best-known work, The Land of Little Rain, was an immediate success upon publication and launched Austin's thirty-year writing career. In addition to making a special study of life in the Mojave Desert, Austin was also an early advocate of women's rights, a protector of the environment, and a champion of Native American and Mexican American rights. In all, she produced more than thirty books and two hundred and fifty articles by the time of her death in 1934.
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