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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains.

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  • "American childhood"@en
  • "Pilgrim at tinker creek"
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • "Writing life"@en

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  • "本书以散文形式，用神秘主义者的眼光及优美圣洁的文字对大自然的赞叹，曾获普利策奖."
  • "Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains."
  • "Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains."@en
  • ""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"--Publisher's description."@en
  • "Records the seasons as they come and go at Tinker Creek in Virginia."@en
  • "Ben shu yi san wen xing shi, yong shen mi zhu yi zhe de yan guang ji you mei sheng jie de wen zi dui da zi ran de zan tan, zeng huo pu li ce jiang."
  • "What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between, and something quite beautiful. It is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley for a period of several years."
  • "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."
  • "Pilgrim 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 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. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons."@en
  • "A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings."@en
  • "A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings."
  • "What is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw -- an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between -- and something quite beautiful. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, first published in 1974, has endured to become one of the great American classics of nonfiction writing. Roughly described, it is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek for a period of several years. It is an unclassifiable mix of memoir, science, anthropology, folklore, philosophy, theology, ecology, and probably several other things that I didn't even pick up on. It is expansive, complex, and eclectic."
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence.""@en

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  • "Americké prózy"
  • "American prose"
  • "Essays"
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Eseje"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Vyprávění"
  • "Narrations"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Publishers' advertisements"
  • "Proza amerykańska"

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  • "Dingke xi pan de chao sheng zhe"
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"@en
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • "Ting ke xi pan de chao sheng zhe"
  • "Pèlerinage à Tinker Creek"
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ; American childhood ; Writing life"@en
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American childhood, and The writing life"
  • "Pielgrzym nad Tinker Creek"@pl
  • "Pielgrzym nad Tinker Creek"
  • "Xi pan tian wen = Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • "Poutník u Tinker Creeku"
  • "Ting ke xi pan de chao sheng zhe = Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ; An American childhood ; The writing life"@en
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American childhood, the writing life"@en
  • "汀克溪畔的朝聖者"
  • "溪畔天问"
  • "溪畔天問"
  • "Pilgrim at tinker creek"
  • "Pilgrim at tinker creek"@en
  • "汀克溪畔的朝圣者 = Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"
  • "Waterspiegelingen"
  • "Der freie Fall der Spottdrossel"
  • "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. An American childhood [u.a.] / Annie Dillard"
  • "Xi pan tian wen"
  • "溪畔天问 = Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

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