Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 240 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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... Bush ( 1852 ) Catharine began writing while she was very young , publishing The Tell Tale : An Original Collection of Moral and Amusing Stories ( 1818 ) when she was only sixteen . During her teens and twenties , Catharine continued to ...
... that few thought she would recover , ]essie's grief was great . She recalled over and over again the kindness to her in the bush in those early days . A portrait of pioneer life emerges in these pages ; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION XV.
... bush and the unmarked or poorly marked bush trails , not to mention sparse settlement , made this a real and present danger to the pioneer . “ Alone in the Forest ” sets forth a few less obvious perils of pioneering , too . First , as ...
... bush society . Still , her buoyant spirit , bolstered by a strong religious faith , seems to have sus- tained her throughout strikingly similar circumstances . A third key attribute of Pearls and Pebbles , and arguably the most ...
... bush's inhabitants are seen by the settler as obstacles to success ; accordingly , in the process of pioneering , trees are ruthlessly cut down and native life forms vanish . Although herself a pioneer , and thereby implicated in the ...
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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 |