Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Doak
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Nature
- Time of Work: The mid-twentieth century
- Setting: Virginia
- Principal Characters: Annie Dillard
- 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
Form and Content
Tinker Creek is a valley in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains. Annie Dillard, although born and reared in Pittsburgh, decided to make it her home for several years, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the result. The book records her explorations and observations of the life of nature around the creek, interspersed with her meditations on the intricacies, paradoxes, mysteries, cruelties, and sublimities of the created world, and the unanswered and unanswerable questions about the intentions of the Creator. She is not a disinterested naturalist or scientist,...
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