The Land of Little Rain
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : California |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : Sunstone Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0865345392 |
In her autobiography, published in 1932, Austin speaks frankly about her life while also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and influenced her life and writing. A prolific writer, she wrote novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry. She was an early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of women and minority groups.
Author | : Bernard L. Fontana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
An appreciation of the Tohono O'odham (long known as the Papago) Indians, whose reservation is the second largest in the United States. "Fontana, who has lived at the edge of the Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) Reservation for decades, provides sympathetic insight into the history and lifeways of these gentle desert dwellers. Schaefer's photographs, many of them portraits, add timeliness and immediate presence." --Books of the Southwest "An unsurpassed insight into the Papago world, past and present." --Arizona Highways
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author | : Susan Goodman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0520246357 |
"Finally, a book that does Mary Austin justice in all her complexity and takes her seriously as a challenging and varied writer."—Melody Graulich, coeditor of Exploring Lost Borders "A wonderful wide-angle view of an era in the American West and its literary, artistic, and anthropological figures."—Robert D. Richardson Jr., author of Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind
Author | : Charlotte Herman |
Publisher | : Albert Whitman & Company |
Total Pages | : 35 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0807593958 |
Abby and her parents have moved to Israel, where they've always dreamed of living. Abby's excited about her new home, but she misses her grandma. As they exchange letters and emails, Abby tells about her new life-learning Hebrew, eating falafel, and floating in the Dead Sea. And through the long dry summer, as she looks forward to the first rain of autumn, she misses how she and Grandma used to splash and play on rainy days. Finally, one morning, Abby hears the long-awaited ping ping ping on the roof. And then something even more wonderful happens. Kathryn Mitter's bright paintings perfectly complement Charlotte Herman's appealing story of the love between a grandma and a little girl.
Author | : Heike Schaefer |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813922737 |
Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author | : Alice J. Wisler |
Publisher | : Baker Books |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1441205683 |
Nicole Michelin avoids airplanes, motorcycles, and most of all, Japan, where her parents once were missionaries. Something happened in Japan...something that sent Nicole and her father back to America alone...something of which Nicole knows only bits and pieces. But she is content with life in little Mount Olive, North Carolina, with her quirky relatives, tank of lively fish, and plenty of homemade pineapple chutney. Through her online column for the Pretty Fishy Web site, she meets Harrison Michaels, who, much to her dismay, lives in Japan. She attempts to avoid him, but his e-mails tug at her heart. Then Harrison reveals that he knew her as a child in Japan. In fact, he knows more about her childhood than she does...
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 2014-06-28 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9781500347628 |
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin. Top 100 Books – America. The Land of Little Rain is a book written by American writer Mary Hunter Austin. First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise. The Land of Little Rain is a collection of short stories and essays detailing the landscape and inhabitants of the American Southwest. A message of environmental conservation and a philosophy of cultural and sociopolitical regionalism loosely links the stories together. "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"
Author | : Mary Austin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780813512181 |
Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story "as another character, as the instigator of plot," and that the story must reflect "the essential qualities of the land." In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman.