Acknowledgments xi
Sources for Illustrations xvii
Preface to the 2009 Edition xxi
Prologue 3(4)
``Wild Creatures Are My Friends''
7(20)
``The Vision Splendid''
27(27)
``The Decision for Science''
54(27)
``Something to Write About''
81(29)
``Just to Live by Writing''
110(21)
``Return to the Sea''
131(21)
``Such a Comfort to Me''
152(26)
``A Subject Very Close to My Heart''
178(20)
``Kin This Be Me?''
198(25)
``An Alice in Wonderland Character''
223(21)
``Nothing Lives to Itself''
244(23)
``Between the Tide Lines''
267(22)
``One Must Dream Greatly''
289(23)
``I Shall Rant a Little, Too''
312(27)
``The Red Queen''
339(24)
``If I Live to Be 90''
363(33)
``A Solemn Obligation''
396(32)
``Rumblings of an Avalanche''
428(29)
``I Shall Remember the Monarchs''
457(28)
Afterword 485(1)
Abbreviations Used in the Notes 486(3)
Notes 489(96)
Bibliography 585(26)
Index 611