Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 211 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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... gathering the pebbles from notebooks and journals written during the long years of her life in the backwoods of Canada . The book consists of a series of prose sketches , and some poetry . The chief focus is Canadian natural history ...
... gathering the pebbles from notebooks and journals written during the long years of her life in the backwoods of Canada . " WESTOVE , " LAKEFIELD , September 20 , 1894 . PLEASANT DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD ? ༣༡ " How dear 4 PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... gathered while the dew was still upon them , or the rites lost half their virtue . We were always up before the sun , and so eagerly did we watch for the day that even our dreams were haunted by the anticipated pleasure , for I remember ...
... gathered and strung upon a stalk of to carry home to our mother as a peace - offering for torn frocks and soiled pinafores , or leave out - stayed . This charming spot was our Eden . In it we laid out beds and planted a garden for ...
... gather together in social bands , but others steal away unseen ; 1 we know not how and when they go till we miss them , to see them no more again till the spring of another year . While I am pondering over these mysteries , a pair of ...
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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 |