The 25th Anniversary edition of Annie Dillard's classic Pulitzer Prize winning book. Dillard's work has been likened to Thoreau's in style and spirit.

Eudora Welty of The New York Times Book Review says:

"The Book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. A reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled...There is an ambition about her book that I like...It is the ambition to feel."