Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
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"First Perennial classics edition published 1998"--Title page verso.
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.
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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Harper Perennial modern classics
PUBLISHED
New York : HarperPerennial, 2007, ©1974.
Year Published: 1974
Description: 290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0061233323
9780061233326
SUBJECTS
Dillard, Annie.
Nature.
Natural history -- Blue Ridge.
Blue Ridge (Va.)
Essays.