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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

  • FINISHED
  • Finished May 2017
  • First published 1974

nature essays

Dillard observes a single Virginia creek over a year and writes about insects, birds and the cruelty and beauty of nature.   The book mixes close description with questions about God.