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The Land of Little Rain

by Mary Austin · 1903

Nature & Environment · ranked #29 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

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

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Category
Nature & Environment
First published
1903 · 1900s
Author
Mary Austin
Standing
Recommended

About Nature & Environment

Nature writing ranges from lyrical observation to urgent ecological argument. The best of it makes you see the natural world more clearly — and care about what is happening to it.

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