Of Earth and Little Rain

Of Earth and Little Rain
Title Of Earth and Little Rain PDF eBook
Author Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 185
Release 1989-12
Genre History
ISBN 0816511462

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This volume provides information from the author's twenty-five year study of the humble desert Papago Indians

Of Earth and Little Rain

Of Earth and Little Rain
Title Of Earth and Little Rain PDF eBook
Author Bernard L. Fontana
Publisher University of Arizona Press
Pages 185
Release 2015-09-01
Genre History
ISBN 0816532664

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“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

The Land of Little Rain

The Land of Little Rain
Title The Land of Little Rain PDF eBook
Author Mary Austin
Publisher
Pages 318
Release 1903
Genre History
ISBN

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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.

The Small Rain

The Small Rain
Title The Small Rain PDF eBook
Author Madeleine L'Engle
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 373
Release 2017-02-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1504041526

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“An unusual and beautiful book,” the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles Times). At only ten years old, Katherine Forrester has already experienced her fair share of upheaval. It has been three years since she last saw her mother, a concert pianist whose career was cut short by a terrible accident. After a brief reunion, tragedy strikes once more, forcing Katherine from the familiarity of New York City to a foreign Swiss boarding school. Far from home, she struggles with the challenges of growing up. Stifled by her daily routine and the pettiness of her classmates, Katherine’s piano lessons with a gifted young teacher provide an anchor in the storm. After graduation, she follows in her mother’s footsteps, pursuing a career as a pianist in Greenwich Village. There, she must learn to reconcile her blossoming relationship with her fiancé with the one consistent and dominant force in her life: music. Inspired by the author’s time living among artists, The Small Rain follows Katherine’s journey from a distraught girl to an exuberant and talented woman with the breadth and poignancy that defines Madeleine L’Engle’s signature style. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Madeleine L’Engle including rare images from the author’s estate.

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Red Earth and Pouring Rain
Title Red Earth and Pouring Rain PDF eBook
Author Vikram Chandra
Publisher Faber & Faber
Pages 664
Release 2011-04-07
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0571267157

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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

A Little Sunshine and a Little Rain

A Little Sunshine and a Little Rain
Title A Little Sunshine and a Little Rain PDF eBook
Author Sabina Laura
Publisher Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pages 194
Release 2021-03-16
Genre Games & Activities
ISBN 0711260214

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A little sunshine and a little rain: A Poetry Journal will spark your imagination, encourage your creativity and guide your writing.

Rain

Rain
Title Rain PDF eBook
Author Cynthia Barnett
Publisher Crown
Pages 370
Release 2016-04-05
Genre Science
ISBN 0804137110

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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.