The Land of Little Rain - Softcover

Austin, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1438536593 ISBN 13: 9781438536590

Publisher: Book Jungle, 2010

Synopsis

Mary Austin was an early ecologist, feminist, and desert dweller. The Land of Little Rain is a book about earth, sky, weather, and some of the plants and animals that survive and reproduce among those elemental and elementary events, She describes a few of the people who once lived in what was something close to an original state of nature. The Table on Contents includes The land of little rain. -- Water trails of the Ceriso. -- The scavengers. -- The pocket hunter. - Shoshone land. -- Jimville, a Bret Harte town. -- My neighbor's field. -- The mesa trail. -- The basket maker. -- The streets of the mountains. -- Water borders. -- Other water borders. -- Nurslings of the sky. -- The little town of the grape vines.

About this title

Review:

"Mary Austin was a poet, a pioneer, and a patriot." --Terry Tempest Williams

About the Author:

Austin came to California in 1887 to homestead with her family in Kern County, in the Great Central Valley. She is the author of many novels, essays, and story collections.

About this edition

• Publisher: Book Jungle
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1438536593
• ISBN 13: 9781438536590
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98