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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... MORNING 14 ANOTHER MAY MORNING 21 MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS 32 THE ENGLISH SPARROW : A DEFENSE 45 NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY 49 THE SPIDER 58 PROSPECTING , AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR 65 IN THE CANADIAN ...
... Morning , ” dated 1888 , Traill notices the delayed arrival of snow sparrows , crossbills and tom - tits in spring , and blames the absence on environmental change : In mild winters they were wont to come as early EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION ...
... morning mist , far away to the distant northern limits of the horizon , till mingling with the grey they melted into a mere cloud line to the eye . Around us , gilded by the rays of the rising sun , the smooth surface of the lake shone ...
... morning . But what a change since yesterday in the temperature of the air ! Then chilling northeast winds , grey cloudy sky , cold and cheer- less ; now , bright cloudless blue sky and soft balmy airs . Yesterday I was wrapped in a ...
... seeds among the dry amaranths and other weeds . * Chickadee of the Americans — Parus atricapillus . † Chipping sparrow — Spizella socialis . The snowbirds and their friends , the chipping sparrows ,. MEMORIES OF A MAY MORNING 15.
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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 |