Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Couverture souple

Annie-dillard

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0061219800 ISBN 13 : 9780061219801

Editeur : Harper's Magazine Press, 1974

Synopsis

Book by Dillard Annie

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

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.

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper's Magazine Press
• Date d'édition: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0061219800
• ISBN 13: 9780061219801
• Reliure: Broché