The Land Of Little Rain

Author : Mary Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( 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 312 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 : 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 : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865345392
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earth Horizon written by Mary Austin and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Ann-Kathrin Stahl
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 366835281X
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Concern of Women for Nature. Mary Austin’s Appreciation of the Desert in "The Land of Little Rain" written by Ann-Kathrin Stahl and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, language: English, abstract: “In response to the industrial revolution of the late 18th century” (Scheese 6) a new field of literary studies has been established. Derived from former pastoralism, authors now engage into what is called ‘nature writing’. Addressing the concerns of life in the country, attention is directed to the different forms of nature as well. One of these nature writers can be found in Mary Hunter Austin, an American writer who expresses her “affinity for nature, and more particularly the desert” (Scheese 76) by describing the landscape of the Mojave Desert in Southern California the way she perceived it during her walks through it. Austin successfully creates a whole new picture of it in her work "The Land of Little Rain". Through her celebration of a land often perceived as sterile and uninteresting, Austin helped create in America what had not existed before the turn of the century: a desert aesthetic. What Scheese here calls “a desert aesthetic” (Scheese 75) describes the establishment of a literary discourse exclusively centered around literature about the desert. Desert literature itself offers numerous possibilities for writers at the beginning of the twentieth century, especially for female writers as it “inspired cultural fantasies and enabled real and imagined experiences of solitude, comntemplative repose, divine revelation” (Gersdorf 16). As a consequence, the stories of female writers can be understood as symbolic since the action is moved from a former domestic space to the public sphere in form of the desert. This also conforms to the character of the concept of ‘New Womanhood’ which signifies a newly gained freedom for women at the end of the nineteenth century as their determination of staying within the domestic sphere was finally abandoned. To prove this statement, the following essay initially gives a short overview of the literary study of nature writing and its more recent descendant, namely ‘desert literature’. Moreover, the second part of the essay will show how Mary Hunter Austin succeeds in transferring her appreciation of the desert into her short story collection "The Land of Little Rain", where she attributes utopian qualities to the theme of the desert. The third part will finally analyze Austin’s novel with regard to her gender, her concern for nature and the developments concerning the ecofeminist movement at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Author : Susan Goodman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520246357
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Austin and the American West written by Susan Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Mary Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Journeys' Ending written by Mary Austin and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Heike Schaefer
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813922737
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Austin's Regionalism written by Heike Schaefer and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Charlotte Herman
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807593958
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Rain written by Charlotte Herman and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Mary Austin
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781500347628
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alice J. Wisler
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1441205683
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain Song (Heart of Carolina Book #1) written by Alice J. Wisler and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...