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<em>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</em> is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing 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.
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
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- Jaar van publicatie
- 1976
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- Titel
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Annie Dillard
- Uitgever
- Picador Books
- Jaar van publicatie
- 1976
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0330247158
- ISBN13
- 9780330247153
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Biographies, Natuur, Poëzie, Filosofie, Vrouwen, Spiritualiteit en religie, Klassiekers, Christelijke thema's, Wetenschap, Autobiografie en memoires, Verenigde Staten, 20e Eeuw, Biografieën, Opiniejournalistiek & Essays, Ecologie, Theologie, Reizen, Natuurobservatie, Jaren '70 van de 20e Eeuw, Pulitzerprijs
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- <em>Pilgrim at Tinker Creek</em> is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing 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.