Pearls and Pebbles
eBook - ePub

Pearls and Pebbles

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Pearls and Pebbles

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Editor’s Introduction
  7. Preface
  8. Pleasant Days of My Childhood
  9. Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario: A Reminiscence
  10. Memories of A May Morning
  11. Another May Morning
  12. More About My Feathered Friends
  13. The English Sparrow: A Defense
  14. Notes From My Old Diary
  15. The Spider
  16. Prospecting, and What I Found In My Digging
  17. The Robin and The Mirror
  18. In The Canadian Woods
  19. The First Death in the Clearing
  20. Alone in the Forest
  21. On the Island of Minnewawa
  22. The Children of the Forest
  23. Thoughts on Vegetable Instinct
  24. Some Curious Plants
  25. Some Varieties of Pollen
  26. The Cranberry Marsh
  27. Our Native Grasses
  28. Indian Grass
  29. Mosses and Lichens
  30. The Indian Moss Bag
  31. Something Gathers Up the Fragments
  32. Appendix A: Introductory Note
  33. Appendix B: Catharine Parr Traill: A List of Important Dates
  34. Appendix C: Family Tree
  35. Endnotes
  36. Illustration Credits
  37. Index