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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... Canadian Wild Flowers ( 1868 ) , and grand- daughter of Susanna Moodie . Mary Agnes was a well - known writer her- self . This , plus the family circumstances ideally position Mary Agnes to discuss knowledgeably Traill's life and work ...
... Canadian forest . The task proved especially formidable for British middle - class emigrants like the Traills , who were unaccustomed to manual labour . Catharine Traill has docu- mented some of her experiences in The Backwoods of ...
... Canadian landscape , and through Traill , we are introduced to such diverse organisms as mosses , trees , birds , flowers , spiders and salamanders . At points , Traill's observations are specific , accurate , couched in the scientific ...
... Canadian Woods , " celebrates the Canadian bush --which had almost disappeared in southern Ontario by 1894. Like " Notes from My Old Diary , " it adds an 1890s perspective to earlier journal entries and the sketch serves , in part , as ...
... " destruction , " coupled with Traill's obvious love of the bush as it was , move her writing beyond factual reporting into ecological elegy . " In the Canadian Woods " concludes with a section EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xix.
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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 |