A guide to six spots in the California desert that have captured writers' imaginations
Mary Austin called it the land of little rain. In her 1903 book of that name, she wrote of the Mojave: “This is the land of three seasons.”
“From June on to November it lies hot, still, and unbearable … then on until April, chill, quiescent, drinking its scant rain and scanter snows; from April to the hot season again, blossoming, radiant and seductive.” California’s literature of the desert begins in many ways with Austin, who was born in Illinois and moved west at 20, in 1888. “She was a beautiful writer about a place people had written off,” says Ken Layne, the Joshua Tree-based editor of “Desert Oracle” — a quarterly digest he has called “a pocket field guide to the strange and mysterious Mojave” — and host of “Desert Oracle Radio.”was not alone.
Read Jaeger’s work and visit the nature sanctuary named in his honor. His “Desert Wild Flowers” is still regarded as among the most incisive guides on the subject. In the late 1940s, he became the first naturalist to observe “profound torpidity” — a state like hibernation — in birds while studying the poorwill in the Chuckwalla Mountains southeast of Desert Center. The site became a nature sanctuary in 1986, three years after his death at 96.
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