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The Land of Little Rain

The Land of Little Rain

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Number of Chapters: 14

Length: 4 hours and 19 minutes

Language: English

The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: "This is the sense of the desert hills--that there is room enough and time enough. . . The treeless spaces uncramp the soul." Her story begins with the water trails that lead toward the few life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play out at these springs. Rabbits fall prey to the coyote; buzzards hang heavily in the sky above. She then writes of individuals who eke out their living in this land of scarce resources--an itinerant gold prospector, a sheepherder, a blind Indian basket maker. Austin's spare prose creates unforgettable vignettes: "Choose a hill country for storms. . . I remember one night of thunderous rain made unendurably mournful by the houseless cry of a cougar whose lair, and perhaps his family, had been buried under a slide of broken boulders . . ." Anyone who sees beauty in the Southwestern deserts, or who just enjoys good nature writing, will savor The Land of Little Rain. ( Summary by Sue Anderson )

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The Land of Little Rain (Sue Anderson)
Water Trails of the Ceriso (Sue Anderson)
The Scavengers (Sue Anderson)
The Pocket Hunter (Sue Anderson)
Shoshone Land (Sue Anderson)
Jimville - A Bret Harte Town (Sue Anderson)
My Neighbor's Field (Sue Anderson)
The Mesa Trail (Sue Anderson)
The Basket Maker (Sue Anderson)
The Streets of the Mountains (Sue Anderson)
Water Borders (Sue Anderson)
Other Water Borders (Sue Anderson)
Nurslings of the Sky (Sue Anderson)
The Little Town of the Grape Vines (Sue Anderson)
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