Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAn 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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User Review - Jane Doe - KirkusThis is our life, these are our lighted seasons, and then we die. . . . In the meantime, in between time, we can see. . . we can work at making sense of (what) we see. . . to discover where we so ... Read full review
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User Review - Pete - GoodreadsIt took me nine years to read this book. Nine long years! Why? Those pesky muskrats! I bet Madame Dillard would be at least somewhat appreciative of this, given the degree of patience she required to ... Read full review
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| Title | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Harper Perennial modern classics Harper classics Perennial classics |
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | HarperCollins, 1974 |
| ISBN | 0060953020, 9780060953027 |
| Length | 288 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General Nature / Essays |
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