A review by slolee
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin

3.0

I responded much better to Mary’s writings than I did Susan Fenimore Cooper’s. It could be that I know a little more of the land Mary describes than I did of SFC’s descriptions. It could also be that Mary Austin writes of the land as a thing to work with, and observes and interacts with Native Americans as being a part of that land, with ownership, in a way that 50 years prior, SFC did not.

As I’ve read through the Writing Wild authors, the observations have trended more towards the kind of nature writing I like, with a bit more feeling. I like Mary’s for that reason.