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Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in The Land of Little Rain, a collection of fourteen vignettes about the land and people of the region that today includes Death Valley National Park and the Mojave National Preserve. Part nature essay, personal essay,... Read Full Overview

The Land of Little Rain by American writer Mary Hunter Austin and was first published in 1903. Within the book there are a number of essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and non-human.Any profits generated from the sale of this book will go towards... Read Full Overview

Mary Austin's Land of Little Rain, first published in 1903, is considered by many to be one of the foundational texts in environmental writing, now studied as a classic in the literature that sought to describe the complexity of the American continent. Like John Muir,... Read Full Overview

The enduring appeal of the desert is strikingly portrayed in this poetic study, which has become a classic of the American Southwest. First published in 1903, it is the work of Mary Austin (1868-1934), a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, who was also an ardent... Read Full Overview

The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is... Read Full Overview

Landet med lidt regn er en samling af noveller og essays, der beskriver landskabet og indbyggerne i det amerikanske sydvest. Et budskab om milj beskyttelse og en filosofi om kulturel og sociopolitisk regionalisme forbinder historierne sammen.

I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by friend or enemy, and Scar-Face to those who knew... Read Full Overview