The Land of Little Rain
About this book
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.
Reader Profile
3.9/5 · 2123 readers · 66 pages · ≈ 1 h 13 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read The Land of Little Rain?
About ≈ 1 h 13 m — 66 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is The Land of Little Rain?
66 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is The Land of Little Rain?
It sits on the Travel, Fiction shelves.
Is The Land of Little Rain in the public domain?
Yes — it is free to read and share.
Where does The Land of Little Rain take place?
It is set in California, New Southwest.
Who wrote The Land of Little Rain?
Mary Austin.
Where can I read The Land of Little Rain online for free?
It is in the public domain — read it free on Open Library