| The Land of Little Rain Contributor(s): Austin, Mary (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438536593 ISBN-13: 9781438536590 Publisher: Book Jungle OUR PRICE: $13.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel - Literary Criticism | Native American - Drama |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 7.5" W x 9.25" (0.40 lbs) 98 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
