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The Land of Little Rain

Mary Hunter Austin

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It is the opinion of many wise and busy people that the hill-folk pass the ten-month interval between the end and renewal of winter rains, with no drink; but your true idler, with days and nights to spend beside the water trails, will not subscribe to it. The trails begin, as I said, very far back in the Ceriso, faintly, and converge in one span broad, white, hard-trodden way in the gully of the spring. And why trails if there are no travelers in that direction?

I have yet to find the land not scarred by the thin, far roadways of rabbits and what not of furry folks that run in them. Venture to look for some seldom-touched water-hole, and so long as the trails run with your general direction make sure you are right, but if they begin to cross yours29 at never so slight an angle, to converge toward a point left or right of your objective, no matter what the maps. . . Read More

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Before Mary Austin there were very few people who saw American deserts as a place of life. They only crossed quickly or avoided those places by going around. They saw death instead of life. John Muir came earlier as a naturalist in California but had an easier sell. He stuck with majestic mountains

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Apparently, Austin viewed her writing as the desert equivalent of Thoreau's writing on New England. There are similiarities between the two. There's much in the way of dry description that is not particularly interesting. The writing is void of Muir-like passion, but is interspersed here and there w

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The writing: pure poetry. Mary Austin's words sing just as brightly more than a century later.

I know there are many, many versions of this volume that are available, but I was lucky enough to read the volume produced in 1903. Inside the dull and worn brown library binding, sits a singular layout, wh

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