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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By Annie, Dillard, J.M. Dillard, Annie Dillard

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| Paperback | 9780060953027

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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 butContinue

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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  • UNBEARABLY BEAUTIFUL

    this is the reason why I have never finished it. Her writing is so pure and near the bone true that I could not handle the revelations. Maybe 20 years from then I can resume it again. I plan to

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