Pilgrim at Tinker Creek /
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall she watches a mo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | [25th anniversary ed.] |
| Series: | Perennial classic.
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| Summary: | An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays -King of the Meadow' with a field of grasshoppers. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in 1974. "First Perennial Classics edition published 1998"--T.p. verso. Twenty-fifth anniversary edition includes afterword by Annie Dillard, c1999. |
| Physical Description: | 288 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Audience: | 1100L |
| ISBN: | 0060953020 |