Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
eBook - ePub

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Epigraph
  5. Contents
  6. 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest
  7. 2. Seeing
  8. 3. Winter
  9. 4. The Fixed
  10. 5. Untying the Knot
  11. 6. The Present
  12. 7. Spring
  13. 8. Intricacy
  14. 9. Flood
  15. 10. Fecundity
  16. 11. Stalking
  17. 12. Nightwatch
  18. 13. The Horns of the Altar
  19. 14. Northing
  20. 15. The Waters of Separation
  21. Afterword
  22. More Years Afterward
  23. About Annie Dillard
  24. About the Author
  25. Also by Annie Dillard
  26. Copyright
  27. About the Publisher