The Land of Little Rain

by Mary Hunter Austin

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Author(s)

Mary Hunter Austin

Publication, year

Moscow : Dodo, 2005 [1903]

Scope

92 Pages, 23 cm.

ISBN

9781406500912

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The enduring appeal of the desert is portrayed in this poetic study, first published in 1903, which has become a classic. Mary Austin (1868–1934), a prolific novelist, poet, critic, and playwright, who was also an ardent early feminist and champion of Indians and Spanish-Americans. She is best known today for this enchanting paean to the vast, arid lands that lie east of the Sierra Nevadas, stretching south from Yosemite through Death Valley to the Mojave Desert. Comprising fourteen sketches, the book describes mountains, vegetation, animals, skies, human life and other aspects of the desert in prose that convey the timeless cycles of life and death in a harsh land.

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Keywords

landscape , climate

Location

Cabinet 29 - 6: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Theorie