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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing 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.
Achat du livre
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1976
- Reliure
- (souple),
- État du livre
- Abîmé
- Prix
- 12,96 €
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- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Annie Dillard
- Éditeur
- Picador Books
- Publié
- 1976
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0330247158
- ISBN13
- 9780330247153
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Sciences sociales, Histoires vraies, Biographies, La nature, Thématique philosophique, Science, Autobiographies et mémoires, Journalisme littéraire, Presse d'opinion & Essais, Homme et Nature
- Première publication
- 1974
- Titre original
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Évaluation
- 4,05 sur 5
- Description
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing 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.