Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Author: Annie Dillard
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….Read More
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