10 books, 1 discussion guide ; in a canvas tote bag (18 in x 13 in x 5 in)
Notes:
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" (290 pages ; 21 cm). Originally published in 1998. First published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics in 2007. Reissued in 2013. Kit assembled by the Iowa City Public Library. Title and statement of responsibility from book title page. Book Club Kits provide 10 copies of books and discussion information packaged in a convenient canvas bag. Kits check out for six weeks. To find a list of all titles for which kits are available, search by "Book club kits".
Summary:
This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays "King of the Meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. It is an exploration into the nature of Nature, an attempt to discover the true character of the natural world around us.
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