Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 nov. 1999 - 211 pages 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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... 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 SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS 144 APPENDIX A ...
... vegetable treasures she bears on her capacious breast , and which she has brought forth and nourished . Readers become actively involved in the animated world ; we are invited to join the narrator on a walk through the bush : " Here is ...
... 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 , always digging materials XX PEARLS AND PEBBLES.
... vegetable mould . ” The process of growth and decomposition is cyclic , an ongoing process that endured for countless numbers of years — until the arrival of the pioneers : Then comes man , a settler in the forest wilderness , a ...
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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 |