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Woman, Watching : Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the Songbirds of Pimisi Bay.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : ECW Press, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (416 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781773059617
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Woman, WatchingDDC classification:
  • 508.713/11092
LOC classification:
  • QH31.L39S56 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1: The Golden Bird -- 2: The View from the Terrace -- 3: Hungry for Something -- 4: Untrammelled Landscapes -- 5: Hold Fast to This -- 6: This Gentle Art -- 7: Like the White Wings of Angels -- 8: Nothing Happens Haphazardly -- 9: A Strong Wall around Me -- 10: Ennobling Influence -- 11: The Eyes of the Heart -- 12: A Limitless Capacity to Rebound -- 13: Visions of Woodpeckers -- 14: With High Heart -- 15: A Fine and Baffling Interplay -- 16: Lest Living Lose Its Zest -- 17: As Long as It Lasts -- 18: Never a Day Alike to the Other -- Source Note -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Photo Credits -- Bibliography of Works by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: A woman of the Swedish aristocracy loses her young husband in the Russian revolution and finds her way to northern Ontario to work as a nurse for the Dionne Quintuplets before discovering a deep love of the birds that live on her handful of acres. She creates longitudinal behavior and population studies that are still used by Ornithologists today.
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Front Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1: The Golden Bird -- 2: The View from the Terrace -- 3: Hungry for Something -- 4: Untrammelled Landscapes -- 5: Hold Fast to This -- 6: This Gentle Art -- 7: Like the White Wings of Angels -- 8: Nothing Happens Haphazardly -- 9: A Strong Wall around Me -- 10: Ennobling Influence -- 11: The Eyes of the Heart -- 12: A Limitless Capacity to Rebound -- 13: Visions of Woodpeckers -- 14: With High Heart -- 15: A Fine and Baffling Interplay -- 16: Lest Living Lose Its Zest -- 17: As Long as It Lasts -- 18: Never a Day Alike to the Other -- Source Note -- Author's Note -- Acknowledgements -- Credits -- Photo Credits -- Bibliography of Works by Louise de Kiriline Lawrence -- Index -- Back Cover.

A woman of the Swedish aristocracy loses her young husband in the Russian revolution and finds her way to northern Ontario to work as a nurse for the Dionne Quintuplets before discovering a deep love of the birds that live on her handful of acres. She creates longitudinal behavior and population studies that are still used by Ornithologists today.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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