num_pages: 288
description: An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's 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.
language: English
title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
titlecomplete: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
genres: Essays, Environment, Philosophy, Biography, Science, Nature, Classics, Nonfiction, Spirituality, Memoir
ratings_count: 26253
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: McGraw-Hill College