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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... ground . " The specta- tor's senses are bombarded by the colours , smells , and sounds of a beau- tiful , but perpetually busy place . Added to the constant spatial movement is a temporal movement created by Traill's use of the cycle of ...
... ground with axe and fire . Although the diction ( fire , struggle , death ) still attests to a troubled con- science , and while the reference to human involvement in the forest is limited to only a few sentences ( the forest takes over ...
... ground , so that she was easily seen as she sat within it . I was attracted in passing the tree by the glitter of her large lustrous black eyes , and , on approaching nearer , by her soft rounded head , the snowy whiteness of her breast ...
... , but they will not condescend to enter within cultivated ground , though I have often tried to coax the obstinate beauties to take root with me . They love their free - born liberty , and will have nothing to ANOTHER MAY MORNING 25.
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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 |