Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 1999/11/15 - 211 ページ 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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... Flowers ( 1868 ) , and grand- daughter of Susanna Moodie . Mary Agnes was a well - known writer her- self . This ... flower pot and carried it home that I might study it more at my leisure . " The narrator of Pearls and Pebbles is warm ...
... flowers , spiders and salamanders . At points , Traill's observations are specific , accurate , couched in the scientific jargon of the era and employing latinate terms . A self - taught amateur , Traill has a keen eye for detail ...
... flowers , birds , animals . Even the earth is alive - female and fecund : The earth is teeming with luxuriance , and one might almost fancy her con- scious of all the wealth of vegetable treasures she bears on her capacious breast , and ...
... . This edition features additional visual material , as for example , two of the watercolour prints from Canadian Wild Flowers . This page intentionally left blank PEARLS PEBBLES This page intentionally EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xxiii.
目次
PREFACE | 3 |
PLEASANT DAYS OF MY CHILDHOOD | 5 |
A REMINISCENCE | 9 |
MEMORIES OF A MAY MORNING | 14 |
ANOTHER MAY MORNING | 21 |
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 |