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Book Synopsis Of Earth and Little Rain by : Bernard L. Fontana
Download or read book Of Earth and Little Rain written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1989-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides information from the author's twenty-five year study of the humble desert Papago Indians
Book Synopsis Of Earth and Little Rain by : Bernard L. Fontana
Download or read book Of Earth and Little Rain written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This text reveals [Fontana’s] interaction with his [Tohono O’odham] neighbors and how geography and climate define life and culture in this piece of dry land. Fontana’s words introduce the reader to people and provide an excellent overview of tribal history, but no notice of this book can overlook John P. Schaefer’s photographs . . . [which] give the reader a feeling for what day-to-day life is like . . . for the 12,000 or so people who call Papaguería their homeland.”—Journal of Arizona History
Book Synopsis The Land of Little Rain by : Mary Austin
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Land of Little Rain is an incredible collection of short stories and essays describing the geography and residents of the American Southwest. The stories are linked by messages of environmental conservation and a cultural and sociopolitical regionalism philosophy. It is represented as both "local color" and non-fiction, scientific work, written mainly for an urban American audience unknown to life in the Mojave Desert. The book attempts to entertain the reader by including direct, first, second and third-person viewpoints.
Book Synopsis The Land of Little Rain by : Mary Hunter Austin
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Hunter Austin and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1961 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the nature of that country. There are hills, rounded, blunt, burned, squeezed up out of chaos, chrome and vermilion painted, aspiring to the snow-line. Between the hills lie high level-looking plains full of intolerable sun glare, or narrow valleys drowned in a blue haze. The hill surface is streaked with ash drift and black, unweathered lava flows. After rains water accumulates in the hollows of small closed valleys, and, evaporating, leaves hard dry levels of pure desertness that get the local name of dry lakes. Where the mountains are steep and the rains heavy, the pool is never quite dry, but dark and bitter, rimmed about with the efflorescence of alkaline deposits. A thin crust of it lies along the marsh over the vegetating area, which has neither beauty nor freshness. In the broad wastes open to the wind the sand drifts in hummocks about the stubby shrubs, and between them the soil shows saline traces. The sculpture of the hills here is more wind than water work, though the quick storms do sometimes scar them past many a year’s redeeming. In all the Western desert edges there are essays in miniature at the famed, terrible Grand Cañon, to which, if you keep on long enough in this country, you will come at last. Since this is a hill country one expects to find springs, but not to depend upon them; for when found they are often brackish and unwholesome, or maddening, slow dribbles in a thirsty soil. Here you find the hot sink of Death Valley, or high rolling districts where the air has always a tang of frost. Here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky. Here you have no rain when all the earth cries for it, or quick downpours called cloud-bursts for violence. A land of lost rivers, with little in it to love; yet a land that once visited must be come back to inevitably. If it were not so there would be little told of it. This is the country of three seasons. From June on to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable, sick with violent unrelieving storms; then on until April, chill, quiescent, drinking its scant rain and scanter snows; from April to the hot season again, blossoming, radiant, and seductive. These months are only approximate; later or earlier the rain-laden wind may drift up the water gate of the Colorado from the Gulf, and the land sets its seasons by the rain.
Book Synopsis The Rhythm of the Rain by : Grahame Baker-Smith
Download or read book The Rhythm of the Rain written by Grahame Baker-Smith and published by Templar. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking picture book about the water cycle from Kate Greenaway Medal winner Grahame Baker-Smith Issac plays in his favorite pool on the mountainside. As rain starts to fall, he empties his little jar of water into the pool and races the sparkling streams as they tumble over waterfalls, rush through swollen rivers, and burst out into the vast open sea. Where will my little jar of water go now? Issac wonders. From the tiniest raindrop to the deepest ocean, this breathtaking celebration of the water cycle captures the remarkable movement of water across the earth in all its majesty.
Book Synopsis A Little Sunshine and a Little Rain by : Sabina Laura
Download or read book A Little Sunshine and a Little Rain written by Sabina Laura and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little sunshine and a little rain: A Poetry Journal will spark your imagination, encourage your creativity and guide your writing.
Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Book Synopsis Red Earth and Pouring Rain by : Vikram Chandra
Download or read book Red Earth and Pouring Rain written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times
Download or read book The Drop Goes Plop written by Sam Godwin and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2005 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and baby seagull follow the journey of a drop of water as it falls from the sky and eventually returns to the clouds.
Book Synopsis The Land of Little Rain by : Mary Austin
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1903, it contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants of the American Southwest, both human and otherwise.
Download or read book Little Raindrop written by IglooBooks and published by Igloo Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what happens to a raindrop when it falls from the sky? This beautifully illustrated story will capture the imaginations of children and parents alike, and offers a perfect introduction to the water cycle.
Download or read book The Rain Forest written by Billy Goodman and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1991 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the wide array of plants and animals living in the rain forests of the world and reveals the dangers threatening such ecosystems.
Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Book Synopsis The Land of Little Rain by : Mary Austin
Download or read book The Land of Little Rain written by Mary Austin and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Land of Little Rain" is a book by American writer Mary Hunter Austin, first published in 1903. It contains a series of interrelated lyrical essays about the inhabitants, both human and not, and the arid landscape of the Owens Valley and the Mojave Desert of California.
Book Synopsis Where the Rain Cannot Reach by : Adesina Brown
Download or read book Where the Rain Cannot Reach written by Adesina Brown and published by Atmosphere Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tair has never known what it means to belong. Abandoned at a young age and raised in the all-Elven valley of Mirte, the young Human defines herself by isolation, confined to her small, seemingly trustworthy family. Abruptly, that family uproots her from Mirte and leads her on an inevitable but treacherous journey to Doman: the previous site of unspeakable Human atrocities and the current home of Dwarvenkind. Though Doman offers Tair new definitions of family and love, it also reveals to her that her very existence is founded in lies. Now, tasked with an awful responsibility to the Humans of Sossoa, Tair must decide where her loyalties lie and, in the process, discover who she wants to be... And who she has always been. In their debut fantasy novel Where the Rain Cannot Reach, Adesina Brown constructs a world rich with new languages and nuanced considerations of gender and race, ultimately contemplating how, in freeing ourselves from power, we may find true belonging.
Download or read book Rain written by Anders Holmer and published by Eerdmans Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A poetry collection celebrating the wonders of the natural world"--
