Book
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Published
- 1974
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Pages
- 288
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12527.Pilgrim_at_Tinker_Creek?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_23
Reading measures
- Lexile
- 1100L
- Suggested reading age
- ages 16–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 11 onwards · ages 16–19
An Ambleside year is a year of the Ambleside Online programme, not a reader's age. Year 0 is its first year, and a book used over several years shows the span. The ages beside it are that band offered two grades up and none down, which is how we offer a band; they are a placement, not a reading measure.
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard 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.
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9780062564665
- ISBN-10
- 0062564668
Tags
AnimalsAward Winners-Pulitzer PrizeScience-NatureSeasonWater