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California (Hardcover)
Mary Austin
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This lovely book contains the tales and adventures of two children
in a museum where they discover the lives and folklore of Native
Americans and the natural world around. This book was originally
published in 1918 and is considered a classic in American Nature
writing. The book is decorated with Milo Winter's fabulous ink
drawing an coloured plates. Pook Press celebrates the great Golden
Age of Illustration in children's literature. We are working to
republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour
editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can
delight another generation of children.
Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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, accor-ding 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 geography. For if I love a lake known by the name of the man
who discovered it, which endears itself by reason of the
close-locked pines it nourishes about its borders, you may look in
my account to find it so described. But if the Indians have been
there before me, you shall have their name, which is always
beautifully fit and does not originate in the poor human desire for
perpetuity. Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear
meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a
certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar
names. Guided by these you may reach my country and find or not
find, according as it lieth in you, much that is set down here. And
more. The earth is no wanton to give up all her best to every
comer, but keeps a sweet, separate intimacy for each.
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Earth Horizon (Paperback)
Mary Austin
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Mary Austin published her autobiography in 1932 near the end of her
long and creative career. "Earth Horizon" is both an account of her
personal life and of her development as a writer. As always true to
her special individualism, she wrote this book sometimes in the
first person voice and sometimes in the third person. Using this
literary device enabled her to speak frankly about her life while
also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and
influenced her life and writing. "Earth Horizon" is not only unique
in its approach but brings a special psychological interest to the
subject of autobiography. Mary Austin (nee Hunter) was born in
Carlinville, Illinois in 1868 and died in Santa Fe, New Mexico in
1934. After graduation from Blackburn College, she moved with her
family to California. She later spent time in New York and
eventually settled in Santa Fe. A prolific writer, she wrote
novels, short stories, essays, plays and poetry. Austin became an
early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of
women and other minority groups. She was particularly interested in
the preservation of American Indian culture.
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The Bridge (Paperback)
Mary Austin Speaker
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Transit becomes an act of transcendence in Mary Austin Speaker's
The Bridge. I love how each section of the book ends almost where
it begins, how the world comes as it goes, flash after flash - and
just when things begin to blur we "awake to astonishing /geometry,"
to an awareness that "ascent is only a way / toward another
opening." The Bridge limns with unmatched grace the internal and
external process of daily passage. -Joseph MasseySuspended between
home and the city, which glows abstractly in the background, The
Bridge is a timely book in this age when commutes and device-driven
inwardness consumes so much of our days. At times casual and at
times earnest, the attention to timeand color, bodies and motion,
bring heft to these svelte, track-like poems. The conceptual form
of the poems echoes that of a train ride-the seemingly mundane
opening and closing of the same doors, but at the exit, one is
never in the same place as she was in the beginning. Speaker's
poems transport readers so deftly, it's quite easy forget just how
it was that you arrived. -Kyle DarganMost everything happens around
us while we are in between, suspended in our own stories, and
ill-prepared to be surprised. Mary Austin Speaker's The Bridge
honors the potential for magic as unknowns bump up against one
another during the beginnings and endings of so many everyday days:
[I]t is not grace that opens / to let us burrow in / it's a chaos
of reordering / which of these / is the obstacle / to understanding
/ how the magic happens. In these pages, we commute through the
always now and the always almost,unfathomably lucky to have a
skilled poet willing to look very directly and say I see you,riding
in the seat next to us. -Paula Cisewski
“Between the high Sierras south from Yosemite—east and south over a very great assemblage of broken ranges beyond Death Valley, and on illimitably into the Mojave Desert” is the territory that Mary Austin calls the Land of Little Rain. In this classic collection of meditations on the wonders of this region, Austin generously shares “such news of the land, of its trails and what is astir in them, as one lover of it can give to another.” Her vivid writings capture the landscape—from burnt hills to sun-baked mesas—as well as the rich variety of plant and animal life, and the few human beings who inhabit the land, including cattlemen, miners, and Paiute Indians. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the original 1903 edition.
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