TEACHING A STONE TO TALK : Expeditions and Encounters

New York, NY: Harpercollins Publisher, 1983. First Edition, 7th Reprint . Soft cover. Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, with margin discoloration. Softcover/VG w/edge & corner tip wear. Humidity (?) stains discoloration to front & rear covers verso. Anthology. Narrative & travelogues by Annie Dillard (1945 - ). Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT professor of English, and, 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The essay "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" won the New York Women's Press Club award; "Total Eclipse" was chosen for Best American Essays of the 20th Century in 2000; and, Dillard herself notes, "'The Weasel' is lots of fun of a much-botched church service. "On Teaching a Stone to Talk" is a reminder to bear witness to all those mute materials we humans s psrt of. 177 pgs, 14 essays: 1, Living Like Weasels; 2, An Expedition to the Pole; 3, In the Jungle 4, The Deer at Providencia; 5, Teaching a Stone to Talk; 6, On a Hill Far Away; 7, Total Eclipse; 8, Lenses; 9, Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos; 10, A Field of Silence; 11, God in the Doorway; 12, Mirages; 13, Sojourner; and 14, Aces & Eights. Strong copy despite flaws.