397, [5] pp. 8vo. Dillard's 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. "In a town near Washington's Puget Sound, fishermen, loggers, surveyors, miners, farmers, shopkeepers, and others struggle to survive as the town is born, grows, and enjoys a financial boom. By the author of The Writing Life."