The Land Of Little Rain

The Best Known And Most Beloved Work Of Literary Pioneer Mary Austin, 1903s The Land Of Little Rain Is A Collection Of 14 Vignettes Paying Poetic Homage To The Arid Beauty Of The Lands Of Death Valley And The Mojave. An Amateur Naturalist And A Keen Observer Of Human Influence On The Landscape, Austin Here Introduces Us, In Her Inimitable Way, To The Wildlife, The People, And The Unique Problems And Attractions Of These Sandy Reaches In Such Essays As The Mesa Trail, Shoshone Land, Water Borders, Nurslings Of The Sky, And Others. The Author Herself Believed That She Had Done For The Desert What Thoreau Did For England.