Pilgrim at tinker creek review5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. She tries to con a coot she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. As much as Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is about science and the environment, it is also about how God works His magic in His mysterious ways. ![]() 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. ![]() 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."ĭillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing.There is an ambition about book that I like.It is the ambition to feel.” - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review ![]()
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