Oct 14, 2008

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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

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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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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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Form and Content

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