Waterless Mountain is a novel by Laura Adams Armer that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1932. The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association (ALA) to the author of the most outstanding American book for children. ...
Her first book, WaterlessMountain (1931), was published when she was fifty-seven years old.
Unlike most books chosen for the "Perpetual Mirage" exhibition, WaterlessMountain is less a "photographic book" and more a derivative of a photographer's preoccupation with both photography and painting, ultimately it is the spiritual combination of these two media with the written word.
In the case of WaterlessMountain, there are four illustrations by Laura, one by both Laura and Sidney, and the remainder by Sidney.
To the west rose the peaks of the White Mountains, well over 3500 m tall, and to the east was the Palmetto Range, which attained nearly the same altitude [incorrect].
The contrast between the fl or dark brown volcanic mountains and the white alkali flats at their bases was marvelous indeed.
Gold Mountain is an extremely dry, nearly waterlessmountain, partly volcanic, partly sedimentary and plutonic.
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