The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.- Time magazineĭillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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, she 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.ĭillard's 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.
It is the ambition to feel." - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review There is an ambition about her book that I like. "The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing.
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