Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and was listed by the New York Times as one of the best 100 non-fiction books of the century. This book gives timeless reflections on solitude, writing and faith amid the beautiful though sometimes brutal world of nature on the author's doorstep in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Harper's Magazine Press
- Year
- 2015
- ISBN-13
- 9781848258358
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Topics
- Nature and wildernessSolitude and reflectionSpirituality and faith
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionWonMajor(1975)
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