The Land of Little Rain
The best known and most beloved work of literary pioneer Mary Austin, 1903's *The Land of Little Rain* is a collection of 14 vignettes paying poetic homage to the arid beauty of the lands of Death Valley and the Mojave. An amateur naturalist and a keen observer of human influence on the landscape, Austin here introduces us, in her inimitable way, to the wildlife, the people, and the unique problems and attractions of these sandy reaches in such essays as The Mesa Trail, Shoshone Land, Water Borders, Nurslings of the Sky, and others. The author herself believed that she had done for the desert what…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60520-658-5
- EAN: 9781605206585
- Produktnummer: 5034006
- Verlag: Cosimo Classics
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 84 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.4 cm 119 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 119
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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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