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The land of little rain
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| 서명/저자사항 | The land of little rain/ Mary Austin. |
| 개인저자 | Austin, Mary,1868-1934. |
| 발행사항 | New York: Dover Publications, 1996. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource (iv, 76 pages). |
| 총서사항 | Dover thrift editions |
| 기타형태 저록 | Print version: 9781322840611 |
| ISBN | 132284061X 9781322840611 9780486159324 0486159329 |
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton, Mifflin, 1903.
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| 요약 | Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online 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, ca?ons, 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. |
| 주제명(지명) | California --Description and travel. California. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | Natural history --California. HISTORY --United States --State & Local --West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) TRAVEL --United States --West --Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA) Natural history. Travel. |
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