num_pages: 304
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: Biography, Essays, Classics, Nature, Spirituality, Environment, Science, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 26261
awards: awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction
publisher: HarpPerenM