Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard New England and amateur naturalist

and amateur naturalist

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This revised and expanded edition includes new photographs

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard New England and amateur naturalistPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a