The  land of journeys' ending
By: Mary Austin ; illustrations by John Edwin Jackson ; introduction by Melody Graulich.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 459
Subjects: Austin, Mary Hunter, 1868-1934 -- Travel -- Southwest, New.; Natural history -- Southwest, New.; Indians of North America -- Southwest, New.; Southwest, New -- History.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.; Southwest, New -- Social life and customs.
Description: When "The Land of Journeys' Ending" was first published in 1924, "The Literary Review" warned, "This book is treacherous, waiting to overwhelm you with its abundant poetry." In it, successful New York author Mary Austin describes the epic journey she undertook in 1923, when left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the south western United States, the area where she lived as a child and where she would later retire. The journey the book describes is a double one. Austin describes her transition from the cosmopolitan North East to the arid and largely unfamiliar land between the Colorado River and the Rio Grande. In telling her own story, Austin also tells the story of those who journeyed there before her - Native American tribes, Spanish conquistadores, miners, adventurers, and California-bound migrants. The result is both an homage to the magnificence of the desert, mountains, rivers, canyons, plants, and animals of the Southwest and a history of the waves of people who inhabited the region. Part memoir, part travel narrative, part historical investigation, and part ecological study, "The Land of Journey's Ending" is a moving account of a woman coming full circle, finding solace in the broad landscape of her youth.--Amazon.come.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv).
Previously published: New York & London : Century Co., c1924. With new introd.