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| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : Applewood Books |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN | : 1557095078 |
| Pages | : 117 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (57 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise.
| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Release Date | : 2022-09-16 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 96 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (596 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Land of Little Rain" by Mary Austin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Release Date | : 2022-06-13 |
| ISBN | : |
| Pages | : 154 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (596 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land of Little Rain is an incredible collection of short stories and essays describing the geography and residents of the American Southwest. The stories are linked by messages of environmental conservation and a cultural and sociopolitical regionalism philosophy. It is represented as both "local color" and non-fiction, scientific work, written mainly for an urban American audience unknown to life in the Mojave Desert. The book attempts to entertain the reader by including direct, first, second and third-person viewpoints.
| Author | : Mary Hunter Austin |
| Publisher | : Sunstone Press |
| Release Date | : 2007 |
| ISBN | : 0865345406 |
| Pages | : 320 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (653 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903 when "The Land of Little Rain" was first published it became an instant success. It has continued to attract and enchant readers ever since that time. It was one of the first books to be written in a popular style about the animals, plants and people of a Southwest desert area. Mary Austin wrote it from her own observations and experiences in the field. She lived the book. It is also one of the first to express the need for the conservation of our natural resources. Carl Van Doren once wrote that Austin should have the degree M.A.E.--Master of American Environment. The book, a work of authenticity and originality still has meaning for twenty-first century readers.
| Author | : Susan Goodman |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Release Date | : 2009-01-07 |
| ISBN | : 9780520942264 |
| Pages | : 376 pages |
| Rating | : 4.9/5 (422 download) |
Download or read book Mary Austin and the American West written by Susan Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-01-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
| Author | : Thomas S. Edwards |
| Publisher | : UPNE |
| Release Date | : 2001 |
| ISBN | : 9781584650980 |
| Pages | : 324 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (59 download) |
Download or read book Such News of the Land written by Thomas S. Edwards and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of new essays establishes women's voices as a powerful presence in US nature writing.
| Author | : Chris J. Magoc |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Release Date | : 2002 |
| ISBN | : 9780842026963 |
| Pages | : 324 pages |
| Rating | : 4.0/5 (269 download) |
Download or read book So Glorious a Landscape written by Chris J. Magoc and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of period documents that illustrate important facets of Americans' changing relationship with nature.
| Author | : Stacy Alaimo |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Release Date | : 2000 |
| ISBN | : 9780801486432 |
| Pages | : 242 pages |
| Rating | : 4.4/5 (864 download) |
Download or read book Undomesticated Ground written by Stacy Alaimo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From "Mother Earth" to "Mother Nature," women have for centuries been associated with nature. Feminists, troubled by the way in which such representations show women controlled by powerful natural forces and confined to domestic space, have sought to distance themselves from nature. In Undomesticated Ground, Stacy Alaimo issues a bold call to reclaim nature as feminist space. Her analysis of a remarkable range of feminist writings--as well as of popular journalism, visual arts, television, and film--powerfully demonstrates that nature has been and continues to be an essential concept for feminist theory and practice.Alaimo urges feminist theorists to rethink the concept of nature by probing the vastly different meanings that it carries. She discusses its significance for Americans engaged in social and political struggles from, for example, the "Indian Wars" of the early nineteenth century, to the birth control movement in the 1920s, to contemporary battles against racism and heterosexism. Reading works by Catherine Sedgwick, Mary Austin, Emma Goldman, Nella Larson, Donna Haraway, Toni Morrison, and others, Alaimo finds that some of these writers strategically invoke nature for feminist purposes while others cast nature as a postmodern agent of resistance in the service of both environmentalism and the women's movement.By examining the importance of nature within literary and political texts, this book greatly expands the parameters of the nature writing genre and establishes nature as a crucial site for the cultural work of feminism.
| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2017-08-27 |
| ISBN | : 9781975822903 |
| Pages | : 98 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (229 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-27 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : SIU Press |
| Release Date | : 1996 |
| ISBN | : 9780809319978 |
| Pages | : 164 pages |
| Rating | : 4.3/5 (199 download) |
Download or read book Beyond Borders written by Mary Austin and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known today for her nature writing and southwestern cultural studies, Mary Hunter Austin (1868-1934) has been increasingly recognized for her outspoken essays on feminist themes. This volume collects her nonfiction journalism, with each essay prefaced by brief introductory remarks by the editor. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
| Author | : Mary Austin |
| Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
| Release Date | : 1987 |
| ISBN | : 9780813512181 |
| Pages | : 320 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (121 download) |
Download or read book Stories from the Country of Lost Borders written by Mary Austin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories set in the deserts and mountains of California draw on the relationship of people to the land
| Author | : Peter Wild |
| Publisher | : University of Utah Press |
| Release Date | : 2006 |
| ISBN | : 0874808715 |
| Pages | : 333 pages |
| Rating | : 4.8/5 (748 download) |
Download or read book The New Desert Reader written by Peter Wild and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slow change in outlook dominates the book, as attitudes shift from viewing the desert as a place of sanctity, then a land to be despised or exploited, and back to an appreciation of it as a special place, an arena of highly complex natural communities, and a wild refuge for the human body and soul.
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| Release Date | : 2005 |
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| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.:/5 (18 download) |
Download or read book Früchte des Zorns written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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| Publisher | : Cambria Press |
| Release Date | : |
| ISBN | : 1621968812 |
| Pages | : pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (219 download) |
Download or read book Love of the Land written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
| Author | : Mick Gidley |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Release Date | : 2010 |
| ISBN | : 9783039115723 |
| Pages | : 306 pages |
| Rating | : 4.1/5 (157 download) |
Download or read book Writing with Light written by Mick Gidley and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributor Martin Padget's essay: Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams' and Mary Austin's Taos Pueblo was awarded the 2010 Arthur Miller Essay Prize. This book offers a collection of essays on the interface between literature and photography, as exemplified in important North American texts.
| Author | : Western Literature Association (U.S.) |
| Publisher | : TCU Press |
| Release Date | : 1987 |
| ISBN | : 9780875650210 |
| Pages | : 1408 pages |
| Rating | : 4.6/5 (52 download) |
Download or read book A Literary History of the American West written by Western Literature Association (U.S.) and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary histories, of course, do not have a reason for being unless there exists the literature itself. This volume, perhaps more than others of its kind, is an expression of appreciation for the talented and dedicated literary artists who ignored the odds, avoided temptations to write for popularity or prestige, and chose to write honestly about the American West, believing that experiences long knowns to be of historical importance are also experiences that need and deserve a literature of importance.
| Author | : Mary Hunter Austin |
| Publisher | : |
| Release Date | : 2018-06-18 |
| ISBN | : 9783337555801 |
| Pages | : 184 pages |
| Rating | : 4.5/5 (558 download) |
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
