Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
This book, which won the Pulitzer literature prize when it was released, is the most beautiful book about the wild. Dillard spent quite a long time in this small area in a particular valley called Tinker Creek in Virginia, America. She just recorded what she saw and what she thought about it, and this book is a collection of her observations.
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