From the Book - First Scribner hardcover edition.
Introduction: A Shriek in the Night
"The Most Amazing Creature"
"The Dreadful Clink of Hammers"
"It's a Beautiful Day and the Beaches Are Open"
Into the Temple of Immortality
"A Delicate Toast of Mice"
"Quite in Love with Seaweeds"
William Paley Stubs His Toe
Here Be Dragons (and Giants and Cyclopses)
Looking into Medusa's Eyes
"The Grinders of an Elephant"
"The Terror of the Forest"
"The Very Extraordinary SKELETON"
"A Cold Wind out of a Dark Cellar"
Sherlock Holmes Ponders a Bone
Bursting the Limits of Time
Boiling Seas and Exploding Mountains
Mayflies and Human History
Scattered by Desert Winds
Defunct Animals and Open Windows
"The Invention of Dinosaurs"
"When Troubles Come, They Come Not Single Spies but in Battalions"
Return of the Happy World
"It Is Like Confessing a Murder"
