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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... eyes were bent on me with , as I thought , a sinister , inquisitive look , such that I shrunk affright- ed from before him . Second , poverty could dash the emigrant's hope for a better future : “ for truly misfortune like an armed ...
... eye for detail , labelling and naming what she sees and , in the process , leaving a record of Canadian life forms , some of which have disappeared or are hard to find today . In her scientific report- ing , Traill does not rely ...
... eyes , the Native Canadians may also disappear with the removal of the forest . As a pio- neer settler herself , she is aware of her complicity in the destruction of an ecosystem , and her work resonates with an unresolved tension . Has ...
... eyes wide open , fixed and staring , but the child was fast asleep . Two tiny hands held up the full folds of her nightdress as she said , “ Flowers , more flowers , Lila . ” Even in her sleep she had gathered dream- flowers for the May ...
... eye which had become wearied with the glare of the sun upon the glassy surface of the water . Our progress was slow and steady , for in those early days of steam nav- igation much caution was shown , and truly the passenger immigrants ...
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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 |