Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Name: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (12 reviews)
Author: Annie Dillard
ISBN: 9781433261299

Author: Annie Dillard

Narrator: Tavia Gilbert

Unabridged: 10 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 02/13/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Nature

Synopsis

In Annie Dillard's classic of literary nonfiction, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek audiobook download, she 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. Throughout her wanderings, Annie Dillard's keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings show us the world outside as we have never seen it before. "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a series of essays that combines scientific observation, philosophy, daily thoughts, and deeper introspection with glorious prose."-500 Great Books by Women

About Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Lindsay on July 04, 2007

I read "Pilgrim" every year. In high school I wrote my diary as a series of letters to Annie Dillard (so gay). It's basically about a really smart young woman wandering the forest and thinking about nature and god and philosophy and stuff. Think Thoreau reincarnated as a 24 year old chick in the 70s......more

Goodreads review by Ines on December 02, 2019

So beautiful and charming!!! A true pearl for the heart and a true spiritual path through the presentation of the Creation and the millions of elements that compose it.... As soon as you begin to read it you will be captivated by this joy with all the detailed descriptions and small actions of nature......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on December 26, 2017

"Thomas Merton wrote, 'There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.' There is always an enormous temptation in all of life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so......more

Goodreads review by Andy on March 04, 2009

I love this book, but it frustrates me too. Maybe it's because Dillard was so young when she wrote it. But it doesn't deserve to be compared to Walden. Thoreau is arrogant and has a prescription for every one of society's problems. Dillard asks hard questions and agonizes over the answers. It's neve......more