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| Preface | |
| Preface from the first edition | |
| Acknowledgments from the first edition | |
| The Earth Experienced | |
| Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events | |
| Los Angeles Against the Mountains | |
| The Night the Mountain Fell | |
| The Turtle Mountain Slide | |
| Candide | |
| The Lisbon Earthquake | |
| The Temblor | |
| The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake | |
| Tsunami | |
| Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll | |
| Last Days of St Pierre | |
| Beacons on the Passage Out | |
| Eruption of the Öraefajökull, 1727 | |
| Exploration | |
| The Voyage of the Beagle | |
| The Map that Changed the World | |
| The Exploration of the Colorado River | |
| Mono Lake-Aurora-Sonora Pass | |
| Thrills in Fossil Hunting | |
| The Creative Explosion | |
| Attending Marvels: a Patagonian Journal | |
| Explorations | |
| The Blue Planet | |
| Geologists are also Human | |
| Stepping Stones | |
| William Buckland | |
| The Old Red Sandstone | |
| A Long Life's Work | |
| Life, Time, and Darwin | |
| King's Formative Years | |
| With Shackleton in the Antarctic | |
| The Great Diamond Hoax | |
| Sand, Wind, and War | |
| Hans Cloos: Ship's Wake | |
| Celebrities | |
| Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream | |
| Leonardo da Vinci as a Geologist | |
| Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology | |
| Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth | |
| Three Short, Happy Months | |
| Mountain-Worship | |
| Stanford University, 1891-1895 | |
| Interpreting the Earth | |
| Philosophy | |
| Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability | |
| The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses | |
| Historical Science | |
| What is a Species? | |
| Messages in Stone | |
| Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature | |
| Does God Play Dice? | |
| The Fossil Record | |
| Earth and Man | |
| Flowering Earth | |
| Habits and Habitats | |
| Diplodocus, the Dinosaur | |
| A Window on the Oligocene | |
| A Fish Caught in Time | |
| Ape-like Ancestors | |
| The Relic Men | |
| Geotectonics | |
| From the Boundless Deep & the Birth of the Rockies | |
| When Pigs Ruled the Earth | |
| The Living Planet | |
| The Road to Jaramillo | |
| Mao's Almanac: 3,000 years of Killer Earthquakes | |
| Geologic Jeopardy | |
| Controversies | |
| Apes, Angels, and Victorians | |
| The Great Piltdown Hoax | |
| Fossils and Free Enterprisers | |
| The K-T Extinction | |
| The Founders of Geology | |
| To a Rocky Moon | |
| Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies | |
| CFCs | |
| Language of the Earth | |
| Prose | |
| Out of Africa | |
| Seven Pillars of Wisdom | |
| Green Hills of Africa | |
| Wind, Sand and Stars | |
| The French Lieutenant's Woman | |
| Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River | |
| Roughing It | |
| A Place on the Glacial Till | |
| Basin and Range | |
| Neanderthal | |
| Antarctica | |
| The Lost World | |
| Poetry | |
| Landscape and Literature | |
| The Excursion | |
| The Lisbon Earthquake | |
| The Fountains of the Earth | |
| To a Trilobite | |
| A Shropshire Lad | |
| Mente et Malleo | |
| Selected poems | |
| Lyell's Hypothesis Again | |
| Selected poems | |
| Stone | |
| Fossils | |
| Rock | |
| Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder | |
| Where Shall Wisdom be Found? | |
| Art | |
| A Land: Sculpture | |
| Beyond Modern Sculpture | |
| Time's Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon | |
| American Landscape Painter | |
| Earth Calling | |
| The Crowded Planet | |
| Human History | |
| Minerals and World History | |
| A Land: Architecture | |
| The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities | |
| Topography and Strategy in the War | |
| Geology and Crime | |
| Tambora and Krakatau | |
| Mortgaging the Old Homestead | |
| Breathing the Future and the Past | |
| Resources | |
| Wealth from the Salt Seas | |
| Minerals, People, and the Future | |
| The Bingham Canyon Pit | |
| The Geological Attitude | |
| Geology - for Human Needs | |
| Benevolent Planet | |
| GAIA | |
| The Web of Life | |
| Remember the Land | |
| Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment | |
| Silent Spring | |
| Who is El Niño? | |
| Essay on the Earth Sciences | |
| The Round Walls of Home | |
| The Butterfly Effect | |
| Pale Blue Dot | |
| Sources | |
| Index | |
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