Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Dillard, Annie

ISBN 10: 0060953020 / ISBN 13: 9780060953027

Published by Perennial Library/Harper & Row, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998

About this Item

1998, soft cover, slight edgewear, a few pages have corner creasing, cover has some edgewear, 290 p. Seller Inventory # 54772

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Publisher: Perennial Library/Harper & Row, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good-

Book Type: Book

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

From the Back Cover:

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“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”