Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
1974 · 290 pages
For a year Dillard watches a creek in Virginia's mountains, where a giant water bug drains a frog to an empty skin. She wants to know what kind of God made this world.
★ 6.0
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A Sand County Almanac
1949 · 240 pages
Leopold shot a wolf and watched the green fire go out of her eyes. Land is a community we belong to, he concluded, and his land ethic became American environmentalism's creed.
★ 6.1
Cold Mountain Poems
800 · 256 pages
A recluse calling himself Cold Mountain scratched more than three hundred poems onto rocks in Tang China, plain about hunger, cold, and the folly of ambition. Kerouac dedicated The Dharma Bums to him.
★ 6.6