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  • Henry David Thoreau’s Walden; or, Life in the Woods, published in 1854, was Dillard’s most important model for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In Walden, Thoreau describes the two years he spent living alone in a cabin on Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts, recording his thoughts and his observations of the natural world through the changing seasons.
  • Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters (1982) is a collection of essays by Dillard. These pieces are similar to Pilgrim at Tinker...

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