{"product_id":"199569150","title":"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974) HCDJ GOOD See Pics","description":"\u003cp\u003eHardcover in Good (G) condition. DJ tanned from age on spine. Binding a bit wobbly but fully intact, pages clean and straight. See Pics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a personal narrative. It highlights one year's explorations on foot in the author's own neighborhood, one year's assaults and curiosities. Here are both beauty and terror: the vision of a cedar tree charged with light, and the sight of a crippled moth crawling on the ground, his wings crumpled and glued to his back.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the summer, Annie Dillard 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; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope on her kitchen table; she frightens frogs. She unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays \"King of the Meadow\" with a field of grasshoppers. Throughout the year, she brings anecdotes and bizarre bits of information to bear on what she experiences.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I am no scientist.\" she says of herself. \"I am a wanderer with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery, as the most gruesome parasitic roundworm.. I consider nature's facts - its beautiful and grotesque forms and events - in terms of their import to thought and their impetus to the spirit. In nature I find grace tangled in a rapture with violence, I find an intricate landscape whose forms are fringed in death; I find mystery, newness, and a kind of exuberant, spendthrift energy.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ex Libris Used Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39730243633343,"sku":"EXL002534","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/5675\/7951\/files\/PXL_20260629_180126810_b42af971-24c6-4cd7-8cb3-80c014660141.jpg?v=1782763933","url":"https:\/\/www.exlibrismichigan.com\/products\/199569150","provider":"Ex Libris Used Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}