Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard.
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- ISBN: 0061233323 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780061233326 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 290 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
- Edition: 1st Harper Perennial modern classics ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 2007, c1974.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "First Perennial classics edition published 1998"--T.p. verso. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Summary, etc.: | 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. |
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Subject: | Nature. Natural history > Virginia > Blue Ridge. Blue Ridge (Va.) Dillard, Annie. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Brookfield Library | 508.9755/DILLARD (Text) | 34029154527401 | Adult New Nonfiction | Checked out | 03/31/2024 |
Easton Public Library | 500 DILLARD, ANNIE (Text) | 37777129213385 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Easton Public Library | 500 DILLARD, ANNIE (Text) | 37777129213484 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Killingworth Library Association | 508.755 DIL (Text) | 33420145194867 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize "The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." -- Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she 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. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.