Author: Annie Dillard
Year: 1974
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Non Fiction, Essays, Award winners, Classic, Science, Philosophy
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9780072434170
9780061233326
0072434171
0061233323 |
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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.
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