The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Mary Austin was an early ecologist, feminist, and desert dweller. The Land of Little Rain is a book about earth, sky, weather, and some of the plants and animals that survive and reproduce among those elemental and elementary events, She describes a few of the people who once lived in what was something close to an original state of nature. The Table on Contents includes The land of little rain. - Water trails of the Ceriso. - The scavengers. - The pocket hunter. - Shoshone land. - Jimville, a Bret Harte town. - My neighbor's field. - The mesa trail. - The basket maker. - The streets of the mountains. - Water borders. - Other water borders. - Nurslings of the sky. - The little town of the grape vines. | The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin, Paperback | Indigo Chapters