Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

About this book

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting one years exploration on foot in the authors own neighborhood in Tinker Creek Virginia. In the summer Dillard 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.