Pilgrim at Tinker Creek / Annie Dillard.
Record details
- ISBN: 0061219800
- ISBN: 9780061219801
- Physical Description: 271 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper's Magazine Press, [1974]
- Copyright: ©1974
Content descriptions
General Note: | Designed by Gloria Adelson. |
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.: | What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between, and something quite beautiful. It is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley for a period of several years. |
Study Program Information Note: | Reading Counts RC High School 9.0 21.0 Quiz: 09118 Guided reading level: NR. |
Awards Note: | Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 1975. |
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Subject: | Natural history > Virginia > Blue Ridge. Nature. |
Genre: | Essays. |
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