Dillard, Annie

From eastern woods and farmlands to the Pacific northwest coast, to tropical islands and rivers, the author explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

Sharing a simple life with his wife and young son in the post-war artist community of his childhood, free-thinking poet Toby Maytree is aided with child-care responsibilities by close friend Deary, who years later comes between Toby and his wife.

Presents fourteen reflective essays on the natural world, including such places as the North Pole, an Ecuadorian jungle, the Galapagos Islands, and Washington state.

The story of Whatcom, Washington and its inhabitants during the nineteenth century.

The author philosophizes on the positive and negative sides of nature while observing life near Tinker Creek, in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

An autobiography describing the author's childhood and life in Pittburgh during the fifties.

Collects three works by Annie Dillard, including "An American Childhood," an autobiography of her youth in Pittsburg during the 1950s; "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," in which she philosophizes on the positive and negative sides of nature while observing life near Virginia's Tinker Creek; and "The Writing Life," in which Dillard analyzes what the actual process of writing feels like.