Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999. 11. 15. - 211ÆäÀÌÁö 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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... looks back to reflect on her life and on Canadian pioneering ; she looks around her and observes her contempo- rary landscape ; and she looks ahead to the twentieth century , predicting further changes in the place she loves . Nor was ...
... look , such that I shrunk affright- ed from before him . Second , poverty could dash the emigrant's hope for a better future : " for truly misfortune like an armed force came soon upon them , and every fair and flattering prospect ...
... looks at notes written in the 1830s . With hindsight she can say : There is a change in the country ; many of the plants and birds and wild crea- tures , common once , have disappeared entirely before the march of civiliza- tion . As ...
... look for the Indian Summer . The destruction of the forest trees has told upon it in many ways . We feel it in the sweep of the wind in autumn and spring especially , in the drifting snow of winter , and in the growing scarcity of the ...
... looks at the interdependence of nature , 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 ...
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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 |