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  <title><![CDATA[The Land of Little Rain (Classic, Nature, Penguin)]]></title>
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  <default-description>&lt;div&gt;Beautiful, poetic study of the Southwestern desert. Fourteen sketches describe plants, animals, mountains, birds, skies, Indians, prospectors, towns, other features in serene, beautifully modulated prose. Desert seen as a place of rare, austere beauty that weaves a lasting spell over its inhabitants. Preface.&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1974</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Land of Little Rain (Classic, Nature, Penguin)</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Mary Hunter Austin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Sep 01 21:19:55 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Sep 24 22:27:20 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book for its reverent descriptions of the land.  It would probably be best taken in small doses.  Many exotic plants and animals are mentioned.  For example, the screw bean mesquite and the elf owl.  Some of them were more familiar, such as manzanita and the red winged black bird.  It w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69767874">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Feb 06 13:56:29 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Feb 06 13:58:53 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in an English class I'm taking.  I gave this book two stars because it is beautifully written and explores a terrain (the California desert) that is utterly foreign to me and that I knew nothing about.  It is, however, long-winded and boring, and a mere 110 pages took me over a week to g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45584830">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This tribute to the desert lands of southern California was written by a woman who moved there from the midwest in the late 1800s. Austin paid close attention to the land (and its human and animal inhabitants) and wrote about it in detailed, exquisite prose. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Jun 17 08:55:26 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a strong interest in desert literature and particularly in literature of the Southwest U.S. Mary Austin's remarkable observations of the high desert and its people in the early days of westward expansion stands out as independent of the prejudices early American writers held for the arid clim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24706208">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31244192">
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 05 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I should say that I mostly read this. Towards the end I gave up and started skipping through essays after the first few paragraphs. I thought I would like this a lot more - nature writing and the Eastern Sierra. Two of my favorite things. I guess I found her writing uncompelling, to say the least. P...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31244192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5660482">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[p. 105<br/>In our kind of society, when a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.  If she goes on crimping and uncrimping with the changing mode, it is safe to suppose she has never come up against anything too big for her.]]></body>
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    <review id="49757967">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed every word of Austin's. It's a short book, and I was slow-moving to get through it. But I don't regret that. I feel like part of her eyeopening awareness of the natural world speaks to being slow-moving. There's nothing wrong with that. I'm a desert tortoise.]]></body>
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    <review id="34424">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is beautifully written. It covers the South Western deserts. I read it for a class field trip to the Mojave desert.]]></body>
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    <review id="18765603">
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    <body><![CDATA[i like her better than <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= edward abbey" title=" edward abbey"> edward abbey</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= annie dillard" title=" annie dillard"> annie dillard</a>.]]></body>
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