Author: Susan Goodman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009-01-07
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780520942264
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mary Austin (1868-1934)—eccentric, independent, and unstoppable—was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. Austin's first look at her new home, glimpsed from California's Tejon Pass, reset the course of her life, "changed her horizons and marked the beginning of her understanding, not only about who she was, but where she needed to be." At a time when Frederick Jackson Turner had announced the closing of the frontier, Mary Austin became the voice of the American West. In 1903, she published her first book, The Land of Little Rain, a wholly original look at the West's desert and its ethnically diverse peoples. Defined in a sense by the places she lived, Austin also defined the places themselves, whether Bishop, in the Sierra Nevada, Carmel, with its itinerant community of western writers, or Santa Fe, where she lived the last ten years of her life. By the time of her death in 1934, Austin had published over thirty books and counted as friends the leading literary and artistic lights of her day. In this rich new biography, Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson explore Austin's life and achievement with unprecedented resonance, depth, and understanding. By focusing on one extraordinary woman's life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness.
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780252071621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When The Land of Journeys' Ending was first published in 1924, The Literary Reviewwarned, "This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry." In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the southwestern United States, the area where she lived as a child and where she would later retire. The journey the book describes is a double one. Austin describes her transition from the cosmopolitan North East to the arid and largely unfamiliar land between the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. In telling her own story, Austin also tells the story of those who journeyed there before her--Native American tribes, Spanish conquistadores, miners, adventurers, and California-bound migrants. The result is both an homage to the magnificence of the desert, mountains, rivers, canyons, plants, and animals of the Southwest and a history of the waves of people who inhabited the region. Part memoir, part travel narrative, part historical investigation, and part ecological study, The Land of Journeys' Ending is a moving account of a woman coming full circle, finding solace in the broad landscape of her youth.
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 426
ISBN-13: 0865345392
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In her autobiography, published in 1932, Austin speaks frankly about her life while also commenting on the events and decisions that formed and influenced her life and writing. A prolific writer, she wrote novels, short stories, essays, plays, and poetry. She was an early advocate for environmental issues as well as the rights of women and minority groups.
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1903, this classic nature book by Mary Austin evokes the mysticism and spirituality of the American Southwest. Vibrant imagery of the landscape between the high Sierras and the Mojave Desert is punctuated with descriptions of the fauna, flora and people that coexist peacefully with the earth. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shines light on the work of Mary Austin (1866-1934), revealing her to be a significant trailblazer for Southwestern literary criticism, with thoughtful introductions to selected writings on her prose, drama, and poetry.
Author: Heike Schaefer
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780813922737
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mary Austin's decades-old regionalist work still has the power to fascinate and move a wide audience of contemporary readers.Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism
Author: Mary Austin
Publisher: Northland Publishing
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 92
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jordan, a Vatican commander, has built a career on vanquishing the remnants of otherworldly creatures from a disenchanted medieval Europe, but increasingly he finds himself torn between duty and his desire to understand the magic that has been forbidden