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An interesting book, but by no means an easy one. Dillard references an amazing breadth of nature writings and has some amazing descriptions of natural happenings that she observes first-hand. Her encounter with the muskrats along Tinker Creek are quite amazing.
If it is rare that I read a book largely on science, then finishing two such in a month is rarer still. This is another of the amazing books assigned in the Amblesideonline homeschool curriculum and one of the first I’ve finished from my Self-Assigned Reading from that curriculum.
Sometimes a classic becomes a classic because there’s absolutely nothing else at all to call it. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is that book. While I admittedly skipped some of the part on internal parasites, this is among the ...more
Reading it for the third time - it just gets better.
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