Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Doak
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Nature writing
- Subjects: Self-discovery, Spiritual life or spirituality, Mysticism, Birds, Ecology, Environment or environmental health, Animals, Insects, Senses or sensation, Wildlife, Plants, Outdoor life
In Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Dillard touches on all the important themes that would continue to inform her writing. At first glance, this book might appear to be a collection of occasional essays that track the changing seasons through one calendar year. In fact, that is how some critics have viewed this work: as essays on the perplexities of nature. While the book does take up this theme again and again, it is not for the simple pleasure of holding up a quirk of nature for its thrill value.
Dillard carefully built this volume after months of painstaking observation of and...
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