Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Summary: This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays "King of the Meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. It is an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us.

Record details

ISBN: 0061233323
ISBN: 9780061233326
Physical Description: print
290 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Edition: First Harper Perennial modern classics edition.
Publisher: New York : HarperPerennial, 2007.
Copyright: ©1974

Content descriptions

General Note:	"First Perennial classics edition published 1998"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:	Heaven and Earth in Jest -- Seeing -- Winter -- The fixed -- Untying the knot -- The present -- Spring -- Intricacy -- Flood -- Fecundity -- Stalking -- Nightwatch -- The horns of the Altar -- Northing -- The waters of separation.
Target Audience Note:	1100L Lexile