The Land of Journeys` Ending Austin Paperback John Wiley & Sons 9780252071621

The Land of Journeys' EndingAuthor(s): Mary Austin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252071621, 978-0252071621\nSynopsis\n\n When The Land of Journeys' Ending was first published in 1924, The Literary Reviewwarned, \""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 southwestern United States, the area where she lived as a child and where she would later retire.\n 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 conquista.