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Mary Austin's love of the desert is everywhere evident in \u003cem\u003eThe Land of Little Rain, \u003c/em\u003e 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, folk legend, and local history of the California Sierras, this enduring American classic resists classification. Her lyrical observations are infused with a deep understanding of the flora and fauna of the area and an appreciation of the people she encountered and befriended thereâShoshones and Paiutes, Mexican and Chinese immigrants, shepherds, stagecoach drivers, and miners among them. Austin's writings have been compared to the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson, John Muir, and Aldo Leopard, but her poetic sensibility is purely original, winsome, and entirely her own. \u003c/p\u003eThis Warbler Classics paperback includes the illustrations that appeared in the original edition and a detailed biographical note.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mary Austin is a 'future' personâone who will a century from now appear as a writer of major stature in the complex matrix of American culture.\"âAnsel Adams\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"She made the land a permanent part of herself and, in this small, tender, old-fashioned, and engaging book, a part of the basic literature of American nature writing.\"âEdward Abbey |
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