The Boston Globe, October 16th, 1995
Annie Dillard's "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" may be the most popular nature book of the past quarter-century. First published in 1974, it won a Pulitzer Prize that year. You can still find it in your bookstore in a handsome Harper's Perennial edition. It's one of those books that each generation of young people discovers on its own. Dillard goes searching for the mystery and meaning of creation among the mountains of Virginia's Blue Ridge. Her book is part nature journal, part speaking in tongues. She is a mystic seeking God in the mountains, the creek, the muskrat, the cedar tree, the egg cases ...
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