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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... FITZCIBBON APPENDIX B 181 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL: A LIST OF IMPORTANT DATES APPENDIX C 183 FAMILY TREE ENDNOTES 187 ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 199 INDEX 203 EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION J41 ABOUT THE AUTHOR, CATHARINE PARR TRAILL CATHARINE CONTENTS.
... 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 keen eye for detail ...
... trees which “shelter” the 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 ...
... trees; animals and birds move in and among the trees; leaves flutter in the wind; a “kindly little evergreen” is discovered “[c]reeping over little hillocks in shady ground.” The spectator's senses are bombarded by the colours, smells ...
... the eternal cyclic patterns of growth and decay, following the life cycle of a tree—how it had been “sustained” by the earth while it was alive: Never idle were those vegetable miners, always digging materials from XX PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
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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 |
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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 |