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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... MOSSES AND LICHENS 136 THE INDIAN MOSS BAG 141 SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS 144 APPENDIX A 151 INTRODUCTORY NOTE BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH BY MARY AGNES FITZGIBBON APPENDIX B 181 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL : A LIST OF IMPORTANT DATES ...
... mosses , trees , birds , flowers , spiders and salamanders . At points , Traill's observations are specific , accurate , couched in the scientific jargon of the era and employing latinate terms . A self - taught amateur , Traill has a ...
... mosses . Finally , it will become a “ rich black vegetable mould . ” The process of growth and decomposition is cyclic , an ongoing process that endured for countless numbers of years — until the arrival of the pioneers : Then comes man ...
... mosses , or inland coves half hidden by drooping ferns and native willows or red with the changeful crimson of the glossy — leafed American Creeper ( Ampelop— sis Virginica ) , which was already wreathing in gorgeous autumnal colors the ...
... mosses , or some native wildflower that mingles its roots and foliage among their own richly spotted leaves . The name “ Dog - tooth Violet , ” by which this fair lily is known , is sure- ly a great misnomer . It has no affinity with ...
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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 |