popular
$1.99 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Memoir of Nature, Observation, and the Seasons in Virginia (eBook) by Annie Dillard
$1.99
$13
84% off
Amazon
Black Friday is days away. Pick your offers now.Black Friday is days away. Pick your offers now.
Start SiftingAmazonDeal Details
Available Retailers:
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Print length: 297 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's landmark of nature writing is a personal narrative that highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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. 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 a profound meditation on its seasons.
What happens when you look at the world closely enough to see both its exquisite beauty and its shocking cruelty?
More eBooks Deals
Please report the deal if expired (click report -> expired)
My other deals
https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Ti...dsrc=staff
- Amazon [amazon.com] (Kindle eBook)
- iBooks [apple.com]
- Barnes & Noble [barnesandnoble.com] (NOOK eBook)
- Google Play Store [google.com]
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Print length: 297 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's landmark of nature writing is a personal narrative that highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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. 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 a profound meditation on its seasons.
What happens when you look at the world closely enough to see both its exquisite beauty and its shocking cruelty?
- Literary Nonfiction: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic of the genre is a masterclass in observation and prose, following a year of discovery in Virginia's Roanoke Valley.
- A Year of Close Observation: Dillard sets out to truly see the world around her, from stalking muskrats to examining pond water under a microscope, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
- Beauty and Violence: This unforgettable personal narrative confronts the stunning paradox of the natural world—where a monarch butterfly migration can exist alongside the terrifying death of a frog.
- Philosophical Inquiry: More than a nature walk, this is a profound exploration of creation, the divine, and the mysteries that hide in plain sight, from an untied snakeskin to a sudden flood.
More eBooks Deals
Please report the deal if expired (click report -> expired)
My other deals
https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Ti...dsrc=staff
Community Notes
About the Poster
Deal Details
Community Notes
About the Poster
Available Retailers:
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Print length: 297 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's landmark of nature writing is a personal narrative that highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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. 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 a profound meditation on its seasons.
What happens when you look at the world closely enough to see both its exquisite beauty and its shocking cruelty?
More eBooks Deals
Please report the deal if expired (click report -> expired)
My other deals
https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Ti...dsrc=staff
- Amazon [amazon.com] (Kindle eBook)
- iBooks [apple.com]
- Barnes & Noble [barnesandnoble.com] (NOOK eBook)
- Google Play Store [google.com]
Author: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Harper
Publication date: October 13, 2009
Print length: 297 pages
Great on Kindle: ✅
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's landmark of nature writing is a personal narrative that highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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. 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 a profound meditation on its seasons.
What happens when you look at the world closely enough to see both its exquisite beauty and its shocking cruelty?
- Literary Nonfiction: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this classic of the genre is a masterclass in observation and prose, following a year of discovery in Virginia's Roanoke Valley.
- A Year of Close Observation: Dillard sets out to truly see the world around her, from stalking muskrats to examining pond water under a microscope, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary.
- Beauty and Violence: This unforgettable personal narrative confronts the stunning paradox of the natural world—where a monarch butterfly migration can exist alongside the terrifying death of a frog.
- Philosophical Inquiry: More than a nature walk, this is a profound exploration of creation, the divine, and the mysteries that hide in plain sight, from an untied snakeskin to a sudden flood.
More eBooks Deals
Please report the deal if expired (click report -> expired)
My other deals
https://www.amazon.com/Pilgrim-Ti...dsrc=staff
Community Voting
Deal
Score
+5
Good Deal
Bad Deal
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!
0 Comments
Join The Conversation
Share your experience with the Slickdeals community
Share information with the community. Please follow our Community Guidelines and be kind!