Woman, watching : Louise de Kiriline Lawrence and the songbirds of Pimisi Bay

Simonds, Merilyn, 1949- author.

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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. Referred 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 refuse...

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Lawrence, Louise de Kiriline, 1894-1992

Naturalists Ontario, Northern Biography

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