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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Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. PEARLS & PEBBLES Catharine Parr Traill PEARLS PEBBLES Edited by Elizabeth Thompson NATURAL.
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. Catharine Parr Traill PEARLS PEBBLES Edited by Elizabeth Thompson NATURAL HERITAGE BOOKS TORONTO Copyright © 1999 by Elizabeth Thompson All rights reserved .
... Natural history - Ontario . I. , Thompson , Elizabeth Helen , 1952– II . title . QH81.T82 1999 508.71 C99-931716-4 桑 THE CANADA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS SINCE 1957 LE CONSEIL DES ARTS DU CANADA DEPUIS 1957 Natural Heritage / Natural ...
... nature and natural history , as well as poems and sketches that she contributed to English periodicals . Her family , left in a precari- ous financial position by the death of Catharine's father , Thomas Strick- land , in 1818 ...
... natural history : native flora and fauna as Traill observes them in the 1890s ; as they were in the 1830s when she came to Canada ; and as they may become in the next century . But her topic is not limited to the environment , and ...
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 |