The Land of Little Rain is describing about 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.

The Land of Little Rain is a book of sketches which portray the high desert country of southern California, where the Sierras descend into the Mojave Desert. Mary Austin finds beauty in the harsh landscape: "This is the sense of the desert hills--that there is room enough and time enough. . . The treeless spaces uncramp the soul." Her story begins with the water trails that lead toward the few life giving springs--the way marked for men by ancient Indian pictographs. Life and death play ou...

The horses creaked forward in the harness, the dust puffed up from under the wheels and drowned the smell of the wilding rose, it fell thick on the petals and a little on Peter's spirit, too, as he followed Ellen back to the house, though it never occurred to him to think any more of it than that he had been working too long in the hot sun and was very tired. It did not, however, prevent his eating his share of the picnic dainties as he sat with his mother and Ellen on the veranda. Then as...

Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of Mary Austin which are A Woman of Genius and The Lovely Lady. Mary Austin was an American writer. One of the early nature writers of the American Southwest, describing the fauna, flora and people – as well as evoking the mysticism and spirituality – of the region between the High...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:First published in 1912, this novel draws its inspiration directly from Austin's own life and experiences as a talented woman—in the novel, an actress—whose pursuit of a career places her in conflict with the values of a midwestern town. The hero's decision to leave a dull husband to pursue a career, and her rise to fame, are portrayed against the background of the cramping social order of...

In retrospect, stories learned as children were entertaining but failed as life mentors. We, as well as our children, have failed to retain their principles and in consequence have lost a portion of background history necessary to understanding Gods messages. For instance, why did God give the Law of Moses? Of what purpose were the kings and judges, the flood of Noahs time? What do the Covenants mean, and why didnt first-century Jews accept the promised Messiah? Why is Revelation a part of...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:Pictures the love-life of a fine-natured country boy, who is left with the care of a mortgaged farm, a widowed mother and a crippled sister. He builds his home in a dream and, when a successful business man of forty-two, finds the dream princess. Sentimental but will appeal to many readers.

To Those Who Would Love is unique. Its difference lies in the metamorphic growth of its heroine, June, who is capable of making life-changing decisions in spite of the pain it gives her, but not because it is what she wants. Love, she finds, is not always enough.

I confess to a great liking for the Indian fashion of name-giving: every man known by that phrase which best expresses him to whoso names him. Thus he may be Mighty-Hunter, or Man-Afraid-of-a-Bear, according as he is called by friend or enemy, and Scar-Face to those who knew him by the eye's grasp only. No other fashion, I think, sets so well with the various natures that inhabit in us, and if you agree with me you will understand why so few names are written here as they appear in the geo...

California - The Land of the Sun by Mary Hunter AustinFor a graphic and memorable report of the contours of any country, see always the aboriginal account of its making. That will give you the lie of the land as no geographer could sketch it forth for you. California was made by Padahoon the Sparrow-Hawk and the Little Duck, who brooded on the face of the waters in the Beginning of Things.There is no knowing where the tale comes from, for Winnenap the Medicine-Man who told ...

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.Table of ContentsThe Trail BookThe Land of Little RainThe Basket Woman, A Book of Indian Tales for ChildrenThe Sturdy Oak, A Composite Novel of American Politics...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS***Synopsis:The homesteader's cabin stood in a moon-shaped hollow between the hills and the high mesa; and the land before it stretched away golden and dusky green, and was lost in a blue haze about where the river settlements began. The hills had a flowing outline and melted softly into each other and higher hills behind, until the range broke in a ragged crest of thin peaks white with snow. A cl...