Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Dillard, Annie. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780060953027.

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.