Bibliograph

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Type

Label

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Oclc number

144685093

Responsibility statement

Annie Dillard

Series statement

Harper Perennial modern classics

Summary

This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays "King of the Meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. It is an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us

Table Of Contents

Heaven and Earth in Jest -- Seeing -- Winter -- The fixed -- Untying the knot -- The present -- Spring -- Intricacy -- Flood -- Fecundity -- Stalking -- Nightwatch -- The horns of the Altar -- Northing -- The waters of separation

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