Of Earth And Little Rain

Author : Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816511462
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Earth and Little Rain written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides information from the author's twenty-five year study of the humble desert Papago Indians

Author : Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816532664
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Earth and Little Rain written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This text reveals [Fontana’s] interaction with his [Tohono O’odham] neighbors and how geography and climate define life and culture in this piece of dry land. Fontana’s words introduce the reader to people and provide an excellent overview of tribal history, but no notice of this book can overlook John P. Schaefer’s photographs . . . [which] give the reader a feeling for what day-to-day life is like . . . for the 12,000 or so people who call Papaguería their homeland.”—Journal of Arizona History

Author : Mary Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Austin
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5040754310
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Land of Little Rain" by Mary Hunter Austin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267157
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Earth and Pouring Rain written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times

Author : Grahame Baker-Smith
Publisher : Templar
ISBN 13 : 1536205753
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhythm of the Rain written by Grahame Baker-Smith and published by Templar. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking picture book about the water cycle from Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith Issac plays in his favorite pool on the mountainside. As rain starts to fall, he empties his little jar of water into the pool and races the sparkling streams as they tumble over waterfalls, rush through swollen rivers, and burst out into the vast open sea. Where will my little jar of water go now? Issac wonders. From the tiniest raindrop to the deepest ocean, this breathtaking celebration of the water cycle captures the remarkable movement of water across the earth in all its majesty.

Author : Mary Hunter Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mary Austin
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557095078
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise.

Author : Mary Hunter Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345022653
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137102
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.