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| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 1903 Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
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| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin, 2014-09-22 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, who wrote so intimately of the High Sierra that vast acreages have been preserved through the knowledge he shared, the work of Mary Austin has allowed those who will never travel there a deep feeling for the special beauties of the Southwest. Her poetic sensibility expressed in an inimitable prose paint a timeless portrait of that vast dry expanse, the Mojave northward from the Mexican border to Death Valley, with the Eastern Sierra to the west and the Colorado River to the east. This new large format edition includes all of the original text together with the intimate color work of noted photographer Walter Feller, a lifelong admirer of Austin's writing. He has spent years photographing the American Southwest, bringing to life the region's vital landscape and wildlife in images of astonishing beauty. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 1997-02-01 “Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares “such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.” Her vivid writings capture the landscape—from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas—as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 1903 Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) moved with her family from Illinois to the desert on the edge of the San Joaquin Valley in 1888. In the next fifteen years she moved from one desert community to another, working on her sketches of desert and Indian life. Spending the last years of her life in Santa Fe, Austin remained a lifelong defender of Native Americans and was recoginzed as an expert in Native American poetry. The land of little rain (1903), Austin's first book, focuses on the arid and semi-arid regions of California between the High Sierras south of Yosemite: the Ceriso, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert; and towns such as Jimville, Kearsarge, and Las Uvas. She writes of the region's climate, plants, and animals and of its people: the Ute, Paiute, Mojave, and Shoshone tribes; European-American gold prospectors and borax miners; and descendants of Hispanic settlers. |
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| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 2017-08-27 Mary Hunter Austin (September 9, 1868 - August 13, 1934) was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, her classic The Land of Little Rain (1903) describes the fauna, flora and people - as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality - of the region between the High Sierra and the Mojave Desert of southern California. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Earth Horizon Mary Austin, 2007 In her autobiography, published in 1932, Austin speaks frankly about her life while also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and influenced her life and writing. A prolific writer, she wrote novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry. She was an early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of women and minority groups. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Mary Austin's Regionalism Heike Schaefer, 2004 Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Mary Hunter Austin, 2017-04-30 How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin 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, who wrote so intimately of the High Sierra that vast acreages have been preserved through the knowledge he shared, the work of Mary Austin has allowed those who will never travel there a deep feeling for the special beauties of the Southwest. Her poetic sensibility expressed in an inimitable prose paint a timeless portrait of that vast dry expanse, the Mojave northward from the Mexican border to Death Valley, with the Eastern Sierra to the west and the Colorado River to the east.Told with power and distinction, sketches reproducing with vivid reality life in the arid region of Southeastern California. Not often does a book of such unusual quality or so picturesque a character come before the reader. Mrs. Austin writes as one who is in touch with all the moods of the wild which stretches around her. -The Brooklyn Eagle The charm of the whole lies in three qualities: the novelty and interest of the subject, the picturesque texture of the author's mind, and in a style which is both cultivated and racy, and adapted to conveying her unusual sense of beauty. -The NationThere is in it much keen observation, much shrewd suggestion, and no end of delight. -ScienceThe snatches of description here and there, vivid in color and scent, living pictures of mountain nooks, open ranges and herders' camps, and carrying with them the subtle perfume of earth and woods. The book is a veritable 'call of the wild' and one can hardly read it without feeling a longing for the free and open life it describes. -The Boston TranscriptA work which has given us great delight. There is a smack of Stevenson about the book and as a literary work it is vivid. -The London Spectator |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Mary Austin and the American West Susan Goodman, Carl Dawson, 2009-01-07 Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be. At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin, 2017-04-09 The Land of Little Rain by Mary Hunter Austin |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 2006-01-01 Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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, accor-ding as he is called by friend or enemy, and Scar-Face to those who knew him by the eye's grasp only. No other fashion, I think, sets so well with the various natures that inhabit in us, and if you agree with me you will understand why so few names are written here as they appear in the geography. For if I love a lake known by the name of the man who discovered it, which endears itself by reason of the close-locked pines it nourishes about its borders, you may look in my account to find it so described. But if the Indians have been there before me, you shall have their name, which is always beautifully fit and does not originate in the poor human desire for perpetuity. Nevertheless there are certain peaks, caqons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names. Guided by these you may reach my country and find or not find, according as it lieth in you, much that is set down here. And more. The earth is no wanton to give up all her best to every comer, but keeps a sweet, separate intimacy for each. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Stories from the Country of Lost Borders Mary Austin, 1987 Mary Austin's The Land of Little Rain (1903) and Lost Borders (1909), both set in the California desert, make intimate connections between animals, people, and the land they inhabit. For Austin, the two indispensable conditions of her fiction were that the region must enter the story as another character, as the instigator of plot, and that the story must reflect the essential qualities of the land. In The Land of Little Rain, Austin's attention to natural detail allows her to write prose that is geologically, biologically, and botanically accurate at the same time that it offers metaphorical insight into human emotional and spiritual experience. In Lost Borders, Austin focuses on both white and Indian women's experiences in the desert, looks for the sources of their deprivation, and finds them in the ways life betrays them, usually in the guise of men. She offers several portraits of strong women characters but ultimately identifies herself with the desert, which she personifies as a woman. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 2015-10-19 'A collection of short stories and essays.......' The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin The Land of Little Rain is a book written by American writer Mary Hunter Austin. First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise. The Land of Little Rain has been published six times. The first publication was in 1903 by Houghton Mifflin. Subsequent publications include a 1950 abridged version with photographs by Ansel Adams (also by Houghton Mifflin), a 1974 illustrated version by E. Boyd Smith published by University of New Mexico Press, a 1988 edition with an introduction by Edward Abbey published as part of the Penguin Nature Library by Penguin Books, and a 1997 edition published with an introduction by Terry Tempest Williams, also published by Penguin Books, and a 2014 edition with photography by Mojave Desert photographer Walter Feller, publisher by Counterpoint Press The Land of Little Rain is a collection of short stories and essays detailing the landscape and inhabitants of the American Southwest. A message of environmental conservation and a philosophy of cultural and sociopolitical regionalism loosely links the stories together |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Journeys' Ending Mary Austin, 1924 |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Basket Woman Mary Austin, 2019-09-25 Reproduction of the original: The Basket Woman by Mary Austin |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Flock Mary Austin, 1906 |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Cactus Thorn Mary Austin, 1994-09 Set primarily in the lonesome southwest desert lands of the 1920s, this previously unpublished novella is a powerful story in which landscape reflects and defines character. In this beautifully written tale, a promising young politician, Grant Arliss, flees from his complicated and pressure-ridden life in New York City to the serenity of the desert's open spaces, finding a love and a landscape that will change his life. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Desert Notebooks Ben Ehrenreich, 2020-07-07 Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Star Rover Jack London, 1915 The Star Rover is an imaginative flight into man's history, rendered in London's most realistic terms. It is the story of Darrell Standing, condemned to solitary confinement in a corrupt prison, who learns to free his soul from his body and escape his pain, to go winging off through space and time.-From dust jacket. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: A Woman of Genius Mary Hunter Austin, 1917-01-01 It is strange that I can never think of writing any account of my life without thinking of Pauline Mills and wondering what she will say of it. Pauline is rather given to reading the autobiographies of distinguished people—unless she has left off since I disappointed her—and finding in them new persuasions of the fundamental lightness of her scheme of things. I recall very well, how, when I was having the bad time of my life there in Chicago, she would abound in consoling instances from one then appearing in the monthly magazines; skidding over the obvious derivation of the biographist's son from the Lord Knows Who, except that it wasn't from the man to whom she was legally married, to fix on the foolish detail of the child's tempers and woolly lambs as the advertisement of that true womanliness which Pauline loves to pluck from every feminine bush. There was also a great deal in that story about a certain other celebrity, for her relations to whom the writer was blackballed in a club of which I afterward became a member, and I think it was the things Pauline said about one of the rewards of genius being the privilege of association with such transcendent personalities on a footing which permitted one to call them by their first names in one's reminiscences, that gave me the notion of writing this book. It has struck me as humorous to a degree, that, in this sort of writing, the really important things are usually left out. I thought then of writing the life of an accomplished woman, not so much of the accomplishment as of the woman; and I have never been able to make a start at it without thinking of Pauline Mills and that curious social warp which obligates us most to impeach the validity of a woman's opinion at the points where it is most supported by experience. From the earliest I have been rendered highly suspicious of the social estimate of women, by the general social conspiracy against her telling the truth about herself. But, in fact, I do not think Mrs. Mills will read my book. Henry will read it first at his office and tell her that he'd rather she shouldn't, for Henry has been so successfully Paulined that it is quite sufficient for any statement of life to lie outside his wife's accepted bias, to stamp it with insidious impropriety. There is at times something almost heroic in the resolution with which women like Pauline Mills defend themselves from whatever might shift the centres of their complacency. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Desert Year Joseph Wood Krutch, 2010-04-15 Originally published: New York: W. Sloane Associates, c1952. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Nature Writing Don Scheese, 2013-10-28 In this comprehensive study of the genre, Don Scheese traces its evolution from the pastoralism evident in the natural history observations of Aristotle and the poetry of Virgil to current American writers. He documents the emergence of the modern form of nature writing as a reaction to industrialization. Scheese's personal observations of natural settings sharpen the reader's understanding of the dynamics between author and locale. His study is further informed by ample use of illustrations and close readings core writers such as Thoreau, John Muir, and Mary Austin showing how each writer's work exemplifies the pastoral tradition and celebrate a spirit of place in the United States. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Hunter Austin, 1991-09-01 Bonded Leather binding |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Miracle Country Kendra Atleework, 2021-06-01 WINNER OF THE SIGURD F. OLSON NATURE WRITING AWARD “Blending family memoir and environmental history, Kendra Atleework conveys a fundamental truth: the places in which we live, live on—sometimes painfully—in us. This is a powerful, beautiful, and urgently important book.” —Julie Schumacher, author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement Kendra Atleework grew up in Swall Meadows, in the Owens Valley of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, where annual rainfall averages five inches and in drought years measures closer to zero. Her parents taught their children to thrive in this beautiful if harsh landscape prone to wildfires, blizzards, and gale-force winds. Above all, the Atleework children were raised on unconditional love and delight in the natural world. But when Kendra’s mother died when Kendra was just sixteen, her once-beloved desert world came to feel empty and hostile, as climate change, drought, and wildfires intensified. The Atleework family fell apart, even as her father tried to keep them together. Kendra escaped to Los Angeles, and then Minneapolis, land of tall trees, full lakes, water everywhere you look. But after years of avoiding her troubled hometown, she felt pulled back. Miracle Country is a moving and unforgettable memoir of flight and return, emptiness and bounty, the realities of a harsh and changing climate, and the true meaning of home. For readers of Cheryl Strayed, Terry Tempest Williams, and Rebecca Solnit, this is a breathtaking debut by a remarkable writer. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Free Fall William Golding, 2013-02-21 Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be and what he has gradually made of himself through his own choices. But did those accumulated choices also begin to deprive him of his free will. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Refuge Terry Tempest Williams, 1992-09-01 In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Western Trails Mary Austin, 1987 The author of more than 30 books in various genres--novels, stories, poems, plays, lyrical-mystical writings--Austin's literary territory was the Far West, her frequent subject was the land and landscape and their interaction with the people, and she drew freely on myth, legend, folklore and history. Her characters are Native Americans, whose cause she espoused, and women striving to assert themselves as autonomous persons in a culture not congenial to that enterprise. ISBN 0-87417-127-X: $22.50. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta John Rollin Ridge, 2021-06-01 The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (1854) is a novel by John Rollin Ridge. Published under his birth name Yellow Bird, from Cheesquatalawny in Cherokee, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta was the first novel from a Native American author. Despite its popular success worldwide—the novel was translated into French and Spanish—Ridge’s work was a financial failure due to bootleg copies and widespread plagiarism. Recognized today as a groundbreaking work of nineteenth century fiction, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a powerful novel that investigates American racism, illustrates the struggle for financial independence among marginalized communities, and dramatizes the lives of outlaws seeking fame, fortune, and vigilante justice. Born in Mexico, Joaquin Murieta came to California in search of gold. Despite his belief in the American Dream, he soon faces violence and racism from white settlers who see his success as a miner as a personal affront. When his wife is raped by a mob of white men and after Joaquin is beaten by a group of horse thieves, he loses all hope of living alongside Americans and turns to a life of vigilantism. Joined by a posse of similarly enraged Mexican-American men, Joaquin becomes a fearsome bandit with a reputation for brutality and stealth. Based on the life of Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo, also known as The Robin Hood of the West, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta would serve as inspiration for Johnston McCulley’s beloved pulp novel hero Zorro. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta is a classic work of Native American literature reimagined for modern readers. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Literature and the Environment George Hart, Scott Slovic, 2004-07-30 The phrase literature and environment only achieved popularity in recent decades, yet writers dating back to the explorers of the 1500s—and later such 19th-century Romanticists as Thoreau—have long been addressing environmental issues through literary expression. This volume introduces students and educators to the field by tracing the evolution of environmental writing in the United States. Chapters written by distinguished scholars offer new perspectives on important environmental issues, guiding readers through 11 carefully selected literary works. Each chapter provides brief biographical information on the author, discussions of the work's structural, thematic, and stylistic components, and insights into the historical context that relates the work to relevant environmental issues. Each chapter concludes with information on works cited. The analyzed works cover a wide spectrum of literature and span nearly 100 years. Included are early writings, such as Mary Austin's 1903 The Land of Little Rain, and famous groundbreaking works, such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) and Gary Snyder's Turtle Island (1974). Also included are frequently assigned works of special interest to students, such as The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), The Earthsea Trilogy (1977), and Ceremony (1977). A list of selected further suggested readings completes the volume. Students of literature, as well as educators looking for new ways to present social issues, will find many ideas and much inspiration in this volume. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Ceremony Leslie Marmon Silko, 2006-12-26 The great Native American Novel of a battered veteran returning home to heal his mind and spirit One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years More than thirty-five years since its original publication, Ceremony remains one of the most profound and moving works of Native American literature, a novel that is itself a ceremony of healing. Tayo, a World War II veteran of mixed ancestry, returns to the Laguna Pueblo Reservation. He is deeply scarred by his experience as a prisoner of the Japanese and further wounded by the rejection he encounters from his people. Only by immersing himself in the Indian past can he begin to regain the peace that was taken from him. Masterfully written, filled with the somber majesty of Pueblo myth, Ceremony is a work of enduring power. The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition contains a new preface by the author and an introduction by Larry McMurtry. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Dreamt Land Mark Arax, 2019-05-21 A vivid, searching journey into California's capture of water and soil—the epic story of a people's defiance of nature and the wonders, and ruin, it has wrought Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land, he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, '50s and '60s, that is straining to keep up with California's relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history and memoir to confront the Golden State myth in riveting fashion. No other chronicler of the West has so deeply delved into the empires of agriculture that drink so much of the water. The nation's biggest farmers—the nut king, grape king and citrus queen—tell their story here for the first time. Arax, the native son, is persistent and tough as he treks from desert to delta, mountain to valley. What he finds is hard earned, awe-inspiring, tragic and revelatory. In the end, his compassion for the land becomes an elegy to the dream that created California and now threatens to undo it. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Nature of Desert Nature Gary Paul Nabhan, 2020-11-10 In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Land of Little Rain Mary Austin, 2000 First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Relicts of a Beautiful Sea Christopher Norment, 2014 Relicts of a Beautiful Sea: Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The Arrow-maker Mary Austin, 1911 The greatest difficulty to be met in the writing of an Indian play is the extensive misinformation about Indians. Any real aboriginal of my acquaintance resembles his prototype in the public mind about as much as he does the high-nosed, wooden sign of a tobacco store, the fact being that, among the fifty-eight linguistic groups of American aboriginals, customs, traits, and beliefs differ as greatly as among Slavs and Sicilians. Their very speech appears not to be derived from any common stock. All that they really have of likeness is an average condition of primitiveness: they have traveled just so far toward an understanding of the world they live in, and no farther. It is this general limitation of knowledge which makes, in spite of the multiplication of tribal customs, a common attitude of mind which alone affords a basis of interpretation. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Rain Cynthia Barnett, 2016-04-05 Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our founding forecaster, Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it. |
| mary austin the land of little rain: The American Rhythm Mary Austin, 1923 |
| mary austin the land of little rain: Desert Oracle Ken Layne, 2020-12-08 The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume. |
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Mary Had A Little Lamb - guitar
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Refer to ECM section 1.6.7.H.2 for site characteristics that must be considered when designing a rain garden. Rain gardens are restricted to a contributing drainage area not to exceed two acres …
Slavery and the Texas Revolution - JSTOR
the only people in the land who still dared to defend the cause of lib-erty. A group of volunteers in October, 1835, labeled Mexican rule as ... Anglo Texas leaders gained little legal relief by their …
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Th e Real Story of Mary Jones and Her Bible - cdn.ymaws.com
Mary’s parents were poor and unable to write. Her father suff ered from asthma, yet would have to work long hours as a farm labourer. He died at the early age of 30, leaving his wife and little four …
Lord Bishop William Piercy Austin (1807 - 1892) of British Guiana
Rev. William George Gardiner Austin {1835-1904}, Eliza Arabella Austin {1837-1884}, Charles Piercy Austin { 1839-1892}, Mehetabel Wickham Austin { 1841-1867} John Coleridge Austin { 1844 …
Mary Had A Little Lamb - Easy Music Notes
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Style and Meaning in Mary Antin's - JSTOR
Mary Antin was born into the vanished world of the European shtetl. She begins the story of her life with an account of her early estrangement from her native Russia: "When I was a little girl, the …
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary - liturgies
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Design Guidelines - Austin Lara
Austin Land Pty Ltd as medium density lots 3.2 Site Coverage The area of the building footprint shall not exceed 60% of the lot area. The use of permeable materials for external spaces should …
earth-wise guide to Rain Gardens - AustinTexas.gov
the land and carrying them to our creeks. This rapidly flowing water also increases the chances of flooding and erosion. The goal of a rain garden is to keep water on the land. Rain gardens, with …
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Mary Yellan sat in the opposite corner, where the trickle of rain oozed through the crack in the roof. Sometimes a cold drip of moisture fell upon her shoulder, which she brushed away with impatient …
Rain Garden Plants - AustinTexas.gov
Rain gardens are simply a more natural system of managing storm water, allowing natural functions of infiltration and evaporation that contribute to a natural hydrologic cycle. ... development, the …
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB - guitaralliance.com
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB As recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan (From the 1983 Album TEXAS FLOOD) Transcribed by guitargod175 Words by Buddy Guy Music by Stevie Ray Vaughan A Intro …
CONSUMING EMPATHY IN - JSTOR
Elisabeth L. Austin Virginia Tech In the last scene of También la lluvia (Icíar Bollaín), the Spanish film producer, Costa (Luis Tosar), rides away from Cochabamba, Bolivia, in a taxi.1 He holds a …
Notes and Documents - JSTOR
F. Learning for granted. See Austin to T. F. Leaming, June 29, July 14, 1830, Mar. 15, 1831, Learning Papers. In her letters to Rebecca (Fisher) Learning, Mary (Brown) Austin calls her "dear Cousin" …
Mary Winder: A Full Life With Land Claim At Its Center
death. Mary Winder was a woman of many different facets, and she touched many lives with her warmth and kind-ness. As a child, she had very little formal education, attending school for only …
Twigs on the Austin Family Tree - austen.one-name.net
provide more details, particularly in relation to what became of John Austin's second wife, Mary, and his four daughters. Finally, I would like to thank Keith and Wilma Austin for sharing their …
1 It was a cold grey day in late November.The weather had sky and …
Mary Yellan sat in the opposite corner, where the trickle of rain oozed through the crack in the roof. Sometimes a cold drip of moisture fell upon her shoulder, which she brushed away with impatient …
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary - liturgies
The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary SUNDAY Prime God, come to my assistance Lord, make haste to help me Your help, propitious Mother, lend us And from the dreadful foe defend us. …
Mary Winder: A Full Life With Land Claim At Its Center
death. Mary Winder was a woman of many different facets, and she touched many lives with her warmth and kind-ness. As a child, she had very little formal education, attending school for only …
The Big Picture: A Letter to His Sister - Texas History for Teachers
Analyze the primary source letter from Stephen F. Austin to Mary Austin Holley, his sister. Answer the document analysis questions below. Stephen F. Austin to Mary Austin Holley New Orleans, …
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Scaling Green Stormwater Infrastructure Through Multiple Benefits in Austin, Texas II ABOUT THE AUTHORS SARAH DIRINGER Dr. Sarah Diringer is a Senior Researcher at the Pacific Institute, …
Brown Girl Dreaming
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‘Where She Could Not Follow’ – The Lesbian Subplot in Jane …
Mary Crawford, who may be seen to embody that attitude in Mansfield Park, is however an oddity in Austen’s work according to D.A. Miller, because she queerly chooses celibacy - and with it, Style …
Mary Had a Little Lamb - G Major Music Theory
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Mary Lee Campus Preservation - AustinTexas.gov
Austin families with kids, as well as veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities. FC is collaborating with a 60-year-old nonprofit service and housing provider Mary Lee Foundation …
An Interpretation of the Cultural and Natural History of Stephen F ...
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Rain Gardens
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Going to Little Land
Everyone who visits Little Land wears socks to make sure Little Land is clean and safe for everyone. The people who work at Little Land must wear shoes. I can colour in before I go into Little Land or …
9 Water Productivity in Rain-fed Agriculture: Challenges and ...
improved water productivity within present land use. Rain-fed agriculture plays a critical role in this respect. Eighty per cent of the agricultural land world-wide is under rain-fed agriculture, with …
LOVING PRESENCE: MARY AND CARMEL
interpretation of the little cloud seen by Elijah (see 1 Kings 18:44). The key to its Marian symbolism is that the cloud of pure rain, that is Mary, arose from the bitter, salty sea, which is the image of …
Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Boston Catholic Journal
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Psalm 94 Come, let us praise the Lord with joy, let us joyfully sing to God, our Savior: let us come before …
The Texas Manual on Rainwater Harvesting
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Land marks: Mary Anne Barkhouse, Wendy Coburn, Brendan …
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Land Suitability Assessment and Agricultural Production …
little attempt has been made for using ML models to digitally map land suitability classes [36,37]. For instance, Dang et al. [38] applied a hybrid neural-fuzzy model to map land suitability classes
The Texas Manual on Rainwater Harvesting
County Commissioner and Save the Rain board member; Katherine Crawford, Golden Eagle Landscapes; Carolyn Hall, Timbertanks; Dr. Howard Blatt, Feather & Fur Animal Hospital; Dan …
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB - Guitar Alliance
MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB As recorded by Stevie Ray Vaughan (From the 1983 Album TEXAS FLOOD) Transcribed by guitargod175 Words by Buddy Guy Music by Stevie Ray Vaughan A Intro …
RADAR NOWCASTING OF HIGH INTENSITY RAIN EVENTS IN AUCKLAND …
rain gauge deployment (WMO 2008). Deployment of rain gauges too close to buildings may cause shadowing, while deployment above ground level (e.g. on rooftops) can result in significant low …
Storm Water Technology Fact Sheet: Sand Filters - UMD
where land available for structural controls is limite d, since both are installed underground. They are often used to treat runoff from parking lots, driveways, loading docks, service stations, …
The Song-Makers - JSTOR
BY MARY AUSTIN The talk had been going on for nearly an hour without affording me an occasion for saying anything, which was exceedingly tiresome. "The fact is," said the Professor, and the …
Descendants of David Little (1678 – unknown) and Mary Peil (ca …
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