Woman, Watching: Louise De Kiriline Lawrence And The Songbirds Of Pimisi Bay
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From award-winning author Merilyn Simonds, a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.“[A] lyrical, passionate, and deeply researched portrait.” — Margaret AtwoodPublishers WeeklyBooklistWoman, WatchingBirds Art LifeReferred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies, Louise became nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus, she retreated to her wilderness cabin, where she devoted herself to studying the birds that nested in her forest. Author of six books and scores of magazine stories, de Kiriline Lawrence and her “loghouse nest” became a Mecca for international ornithologists.Lawrence was an old woman when Merilyn Simonds moved into the woods not far away. Their paths crossed, sparking Simonds’s lifelong interest. A dedicated birder, Simonds brings her own songbird experiences from Canadian nesting grounds and Mexican wintering grounds to this deeply researched, engaging portrait of a uniquely fascinating woman.
Title:Woman, Watching: Louise De Kiriline Lawrence And The Songbirds Of Pimisi Bay
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:416 pages, 8.5 X 5.5 X 1.02 in
Shipping dimensions:416 pages, 8.5 X 5.5 X 1.02 in
Published:May 24, 2022
Publisher:ECW Press
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9781770416598