Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia\'s Roanoke Valley.
The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons..
She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers.
She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope.
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.
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.
Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia\'s Roanoke Valley
