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The Land of Little Rain (Warbler Classics)

by Mary Austin

Desert landscapes and lives in fourteen vignettes

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Desert landscapes and lives in fourteen vignettes

Mary Austin’s collection moves among the land, wildlife, and communities of the California Sierras, in a region that includes what is now Death Valley National Park and Mojave National Preserve. Its fourteen pieces combine nature and personal essays with folk legend and local history, bringing ecological observation alongside accounts of people such as Shoshones, Paiutes, immigrants, shepherds, stagecoach drivers, and miners. This Warbler Classics paperback includes illustrations from the original edition and a biographical note, adding context to a work that spans several forms of writing about place.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in desert ecology, flora, and fauna
  • Readers drawn to essays and local histories of the California Sierras
  • Readers interested in the region’s Indigenous and immigrant communities and other residents

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Desert ecologyPeople and placeLocal history and folklore

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Book overview

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, 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 there-Shoshones 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 Leopold, but her poetic sensibility is purely original, winsome, and entirely her own. This Warbler Classics paperback includes the illustrations that appeared in the original edition and a detailed biographical note.

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