Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 211 стор. How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... busy place . Added to the constant spatial movement is a temporal movement created by Traill's use of the cycle of the seasons to shape the narrative . By beginning with the bush in spring and ending in winter , Traill places her ...
... busy factory , the iron - girdered bridge , the steamboat , the railroad , the telegraph , the telephone . Traill juxtaposes her lists and her landscapes to argue that change is nec- essary . Through pioneering , a greater good is ...
... busy fishermen among their nets and boats , and the groups of happy children on the sands ; but there was a greater fascination still to us in the search for treasures left by the flood tide or cast upon the shore by the ever restless ...
... busy now in the bushes in the grove building their nests . In this they have no time to lose , as the season is so late . A lively burst of song greets me just above my head , in the angle of the beams of the veranda . How well I know ...
... busy with and carried them among the grass just below the syringa bush , where the foundation of a nest had just been laid by the female bird . Her bright eyes quickly caught sight of the scraps of muslin , and down she came from her ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |