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The Land of Little Rain

by Mary Austin

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1903
Pages
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  1. The Land of Little Rain

    24:49

  2. Water Trails of the Ceriso

    20:04

  3. The Scavengers

    14:30

  4. The Pocket Hunter

    18:22

  5. Shoshone Land

    19:41

  6. Jimville - A Bret Harte Town

    17:45

  7. My Neighbor's Field

    15:30

  8. The Mesa Trail

    18:15

  9. The Basket Maker

    16:47

  10. The Streets of the Mountains

    19:35

  11. Water Borders

    18:19

  12. Other Water Borders

    18:35

  13. Nurslings of the Sky

    18:53

  14. The Little Town of the Grape Vines

    17:57

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First published in 1903, these linked essays gather Mary Austin's close observation of the dry country between the High Sierra and the Mojave, a region she calls the land of little rain. She writes about what survives there: buzzards and coyotes, the mesquite and the scant streams, the lonely miners, and the Paiute basket makers whose knowledge of the land runs deeper than any newcomer's. Austin refuses the usual view of the desert as empty or hostile, and shows instead a place of exact beauty and hard rules that reward patience. Her prose is spare and attentive, and the book helped shape a whole tradition of American nature writing.

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Mary Austin

Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) was an American writer who made the deserts of the Southwest her subject and her cause. A prolific essayist, novelist, and playwright, she defended the land and water rights of Native and Spanish-American communities and helped found the artists' colonies at Carmel and Santa Fe.

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First published
1903
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
93
Language
English
Formats
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Audio read by
Sue Anderson