The Land of Little Rain - Softcover

Austin, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826303587 ISBN 13: 9780826303585

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press, 1974

Ecologist, feminist, and mystic before these terms became popular, Mary Austin knew the desert as few human beings have known it. The Land of Little Rain is an acknowledged classic of southwestern literature. It describes the plant, animal, and human life of the border region of Southern California and Arizona, land of the yucca, the coyote, and the buzzard, inhabited by miners, vaqueros, and Shoshone and Paiute Indians.

"In The Land of Little Rain, Mary Austin invested the land with magic, and yet looked at it with level eyes, relying upon history and science in her descriptions of her desert and celebrating its human nature with an eloquence which was also analytical."--Carl Van Doren

From the Inside Flap:

"Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite--east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert" is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares "such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another." Her vivid writings capture the landscape--from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas--as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original 1903 edition.

About the Author:

Robert Hass is currently a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at the University of California at Berkeley.

• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Publication date: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0826303587
• ISBN 13: 9780826303585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 191
• Illustrator: Smith E. Boyd