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Name: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Author: Annie Dillard
Year: 1974
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Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Award winners, Classic, Science, Philosophy

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ISBN:
9780060915452
9780553233896
0060915455
0553233890
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975.

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.
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