Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a book that has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation with its beauty on the one hand and cruelty on the other, it has become a modern American literary classic in the tradition of Thoreau. Living in solitude in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, Virginia, and observing the changing seasons, the flora and fauna, she reflects on the nature of creation and of the God who set it in motion. Whether the images are cruel or lovely, the language is memorably beautiful and poetic, and insistently celebratory. Just pay attention, Dillard urges throughout, and you will find yourself 'sailing headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit'.

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This is not a book for the squeamish or the fastidious. Dillard‘s observations of nature are vivid, but too often coloured by violence for those of us who prefer their nature to be tranquil and picturesque. First published in 1974, perhaps the uncertain, restless and often disillusioned era in which it was written has influenced the writing. There are many anecdotes in the book that take the writer in surprising directions, and some demand notice being taken of them. For example, Dillard’s account of sight being given for the first time to the blind should be read by the many, not the few.

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