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The Complete Bible Story, running from Genesis to Revelation, Told in the Simple Language of To-day for YOUNG AND OLD
One Hundred Sixty Eight Stories : Each complete in itself, and Together Forming a Connected Narrative of the Holy Scripture
Profusely Illustrated: With Color Plates and Half-Tone Engavings
OVER 250 ILUSTRATIONS !
NOTICE: There is a ragged tear of about 3" at bottom of page 207-208

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
New York Times Book Review: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence. Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons. In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical… Read More

The Caxton Printers, Ltd, Caldwell, Idaho 43 illustrations, all b/w .... The frontispiece is in color. 320 pages. Maps on the endpapers. Yellow cloth cover with purple titles. Light wear to the head and tail of the spine. Brightly ilustrated DJ with black titles in Good Condition. Small chips, wear along the edges. VG+/GD [Publication Year: 1949]