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The Basket Woman

The Basket Woman

Austin, Mary

Paperback

Gifts & Stationery GeneralFiction AnthologiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1605206482
ISBN13: 9781605206486
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: Jul 1 2009
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
All of these stories are so nearly true that you need not be troubled in the least about believing them. So begins author Mary Austin in the preface to her 1904 collection of fanciful tales for children of the myths and legends of the first peoples of the Sierra Nevada and Yosemite region. Austin, an amateur naturalist and a keen observer of human influence on the landscape, here regales us with the charming stories of: - The Basket Woman - The Stream That Ran Away - The Cheerful Glacier - The Christmas Tree - The Fire Bringer - The White-Barked Pine - and others American author MARY HUNTER AUSTIN (1868-1934) wrote numerous novels, poems, plays, and works of criticism, much of it centered on feminist, environmental, and multicultural issues. She is best remembered for her writing on matters concerning Native American rights and the deserts of the American Southwest.

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