Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999. 11. 15. - 211페이지 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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... creatures " retreat or are “ driven back . ” The telling diction reveals Traill's ecological bias . A later chapter , " In the Canadian Woods , " celebrates the Canadian bush --which had almost disappeared in southern Ontario by 1894 ...
... creatures , in accordance with His will and their several needs ! All day long , from sunrise to sunset , these birds are on the wing , as soon as the little ones are hatched , going and coming unweariedly , with a love for their ...
... creature ventured nearer to us and took all the scraps we chose to scatter for her on the grass . The work of building went on so rapidly that in the course of two hours she had constructed a most delicate and dainty looking snow ...
... creature . We are so late this year , the honeyed bells of the scarlet rock columbine are not yet open . A few more sunny days and they will be out , and then the hummingbird will have a feast . Meanwhile he is not starving , but is bus ...
... creatures to enjoy . “ Father of earth and heaven , all , all are Thine ! The boundless tribes in ocean , air and plain ; And nothing lives , and moves , and breathes in vain ; Thou art their soul the impulse is divine ! Nature lifts ...
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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 |