New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. dj. Hardcover first edition - A book published on the 25th anniversary of her Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.' It "surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity." 205 pp. ISBN: 0-375403809.