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100 1 _aDillard, Annie.
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245 1 0 _aPilgrim at Tinker Creek /
250 _a1st U.S. ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper's Magazine Press,
_c1974.
300 _a271 pages ;
_c24 cm
505 0 _aHeaven and Earth in Jest -- Seeing -- Winter -- The fixed -- Untying the knot -- The present -- Spring -- Intricacy -- Flood -- Fecundity -- Stalking -- Nightwatch -- The horns of the Altar -- Northing -- The waters of separation.
520 _aWhat is the true nature of Nature? Is it a harmonious, interconnected system, operating according to the principles of co-dependence and benevolence? Or is it red in tooth and claw, an unfeeling, unthinking force, in which the individual is overwhelmed and subsumed to serve a larger purpose, one mysterious and obscure? This is what this volume is all about: an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us. Appropriately, it is neither a rapturous celebration of Nature, nor a grim survey of its various cruelties. Rather, like Nature itself, it is something in between, and something quite beautiful. It is a collection of related essays recounting the author's thoughts on Nature as she observes the ecological happenings of the eponymous Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley for a period of several years.
586 _aPulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, 1975.
650 0 _aNature.
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650 0 _aNatural history
_zVirginia
_zBlue Ridge.
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650 6 _aNature.
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650 7 _aNature.
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651 0 _aBlue Ridge (Va.)
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776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aDillard, Annie.
_tPilgrim at Tinker Creek.
_b[1st U.S. ed.].
_dNew York, Harper's Magazine Press [1974]
_w(OCoLC)770799630
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