302 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w illustrations. "Oxen were still yoked to sledges and the scythe and the ax and the crosscut saw were common everyday tools when Ernest Buckler grew up on a Nova Scotia farm at the edge of the wilderness. (This book) recalls those days. With sudden stabbing immediacy it brings the reader a bird sound, an odor, acrid or delicious, a remembered vagary of wind or sun, the timbre of a voice, or the true look of the men and women who peopled the Nova Scotia of Mr. Buckler's boyhood. It brings back as well the whole texture of a life that now exists only in our memories of the snowbound world of Whittier and the farm life of our grandfathers' times - a life so deeply rooted in the eleentals of earth and rock, wind and weather, and so closely paced to the rhythm of the seasons, of birth, growth and death, that each change on the face of nature (a blood-red sunset, a frost at dawn, the first pales leaves on a silver birch) is resonant with meaning." Gift inscription and two small stamps on free front endpaper, small bump to top edge of front board, minor rubbing. Dust jacket is price clipped, has very light edge wear/wrinkling, two very small tears and one tiny chip.
Title: OX BELLS & FIREFLIES: A MEMOIR.
Edition: First Edition
Illustrator: Walter Richards.
Location Published: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart: 1968
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Categories: Canada - Maritime Provinces, Canada - Biography, Canada - Natural History
Seller ID: 17212
Keywords: boyhood, boys, canada, canadian authors, childhood, farm life, farming, farms, friends, friendship, memoirs, nature., nova scotia, personal reminiscences., pioneering, pioneers, seasons, wild flowers, wilderness
