Preface. Preface from the first edition. Acknowledgments from the first edition. Part I: The Earth Experienced. 1. Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events. 1.1. John McPhee: Los Angeles Against the Mountains. 1.2. Gordon Gaskill: The Night the Mountain Fell. 1.3. R.G. McConnell and R.W. Brock: The Turtle Mountain Slide. 1.4. Voltaire: Candide. 1.5. James R. Newman: The Lisbon Earthquake. 1.6. Mary Austin: The Temblor. 1.7. Jonathan Weiner: The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake. 1.8. Francis P. Shepard: Tsunami. 1.9. Haroun Tazieff: Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll. 1.10. Fairfax Downey: Last Days of St Pierre. 1.11. Hans Cloos: Beacons on the Passage Out. 1.12. Jon Thorlakson: Eruption of the Oraefajokull, 1727. 2. Exploration . 2.1. Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle. 2.2. Simon Winchester: The Map that Changed the World. 2.3. John Wesley Powell: The Exploration of the Colorado River. 2.4. William H. Brewer: Mono Lake-Aurora-Sonora Pass. 2.5. George F. Sternberg: Thrills in Fossil Hunting. 2.6. John E. Pfeiffer: The Creative Explosion. 2.7. George Gaylord Simpson: Attending Marvels: a Patagonian Journal. 2.8. Robert D. Ballard: Explorations. 2.9. Louise B. Young: The Blue Planet. 3. Geologists are also Human . 3.1. Stephen Drury: Stepping Stones. 3.2. Elizabeth O.B. Gordon: William Buckland. 3.3. Hugh Miller: The Old Red Sandstone. 3.4. Sir Archibald Geikie: A Long Life's Work. 3.5. Frank H.T. Rhodes: Life, Time, and Darwin. 3.6. R.A. Bartlett: King's Formative Years. 3.7. M.E. David: With Shackleton in the Antarctic. 3.8. William H. Goetzmann: The Great Diamond Hoax. 3.9. Luna B. Leopold, Paul D. Komar, and Vance Haynes: Sand, Wind, and War. 3.10. Hans Cloos: Ship's Wake. 4. Celebrities . 4.1. H. Stommel: Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream. 4.2. Thomas Clements: Leonardo da Vinci as a Geologist. 4.3. R. Magnus: Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology. 4.4. E.T. Martin: Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth. 4.5. William A. Stanley: Three Short, Happy Months. 4.6. W.G. Collingwood: Mountain-Worship. 4.7. Herbert C. Hoover: Stanford University, 1891-1895. Part II: Interpreting the Earth. 5. Philosophy. 5.1. James Hutton: Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability. 5.2. T.C. Chamberlin: The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses. 5.3. George G. Simpson: Historical Science. 5.4. Stephen Jay Gould: What is a Species?. 5.5. Christine Turner: Messages in Stone. 5.6. Marcia G. Bjornerud: Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature. 5.7. Ian Stewart: Does God Play Dice?. 6. The Fossil Record . 6.1. Frank H.T. Rhodes: Earth and Man. 6.2. Donald Culross Peattie: Flowering Earth. 6.3. Robert Claiborne: Habits and Habitats. 6.4. James A. Michener: Diplodocus, the Dinosaur. 6.5. Berton Roueche: A Window on the Oligocene. 6.6. Samantha Weinberg: A Fish Caught in Time. 6.7. Richard E. Leakey: Ape-like Ancestors. 6.8. Loren Eiseley: The Relic Men. 7. Geotectonics . 7.1. James A. Michener: From the Boundless Deep & the Birth of the Rockies. 7.2. Anna Grayson: When Pigs Ruled the Earth. 7.3. David Attenborough: The Living Planet. 7.4. William Glen: The Road to Jaramillo. 7.5. J. Tuzo Wilson: Mao's Almanac: 3,000 years of Killer Earthquakes. 7.6. Richard H. Jahns: Geologic Jeopardy. 8. Controversies . 8.1. William Irvine: Apes, Angels, and Victorians. 8.2. William L. Straus, Jr.: The Great Piltdown Hoax. 8.3. Howard S. Miller: Fossils and Free Enterprisers. 8.4. Charles Officer and Jake Page: The K-T Extinction. 8.5. Sir Archibald Geikie: The Founders of Geology. 8.6. Don E. Wilhelms: To a Rocky Moon. 8.7. Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson: Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies. 8.8. Joel L. Swerdlow: CFCs. Part III: Language of the Earth. 9. Prose. 9.1. Isak Dinesen: Out of Africa. 9.2. T.E. Lawrence: Seven Pillars of Wisdom. 9.3. Ernest Hemingway: Green Hills of Africa. 9.4. Antoine de St Exupery: Wind, Sand and Stars. 9.5. John Fowles: The French Lieutenant's Woman. 9.6. John Muir: Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River. 9.7. Mark Twain: Roughing It. 9.8. Thomas Fairchild Sherman: A Place on the Glacial Till. 9.9. John McPhee: Basin and Range. 9.10. John Darnton: Neanderthal. 9.11. Kim Stanley Robinson: Antarctica. 9.12. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Lost World. 10. Poetry . 10.1. Sir Archibald Geikie: Landscape and Literature. 10.2. William Wordsworth: The Excursion. 10.3. Voltaire: The Lisbon Earthquake. 10.4. C.S. Rafinesque: The Fountains of the Earth. 10.5. Timothy A. Conrad: To a Trilobite. 10.6. A.E. Housman: A Shropshire Lad. 10.7. Andrew C. Lawson: Mente et Malleo. 10.8. John Stuart Blackie: Selected poems. 10.9. Kenneth Rexroth: Lyell's Hypothesis Again. 10.10. A.R. Ammons: Selected poems. 10.11. Charles Simic: Stone. 10.12. J.T. Barbarese: Fossils. 10.13. Jane Hirshfield: Rock. 10.14. W. Scott McLean, Eldridge M. Moores, and David A. Robertson: Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder. 10.15. The Book of Job: Where Shall Wisdom be Found?. 11. Art . 11.1. Jacquetta Hawkes: A Land: Sculpture. 11.2. Jack Burnham: Beyond Modern Sculpture. 11.3. Elizabeth C. Childs: Time's Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon. 11.4. R.A. Bartlett: Thomas Moran: American Landscape Painter. 11.5. Diane Ackerman: Earth Calling. Part IV: The Crowded Planet. 12. Human History. 12.1. John D. Ridge: Minerals and World History. 12.2. Jacquetta Hawkes: A Land: Architecture. 12.3. Donald F. Eschman and Melvin G. Marcus: The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities. 12.4. Douglas W. Johnson: Topography and Strategy in the War. 12.5. John McPhee: Geology and Crime. 12.6. Kenneth E.F. Watt: Tambora and Krakatau. 12.7. Lord Ritchie-Calder: Mortgaging the Old Homestead. 12.8. Harlow Shapley: Breathing the Future and the Past. 13. Resources . 13.1. Rachel L. Carson: Wealth from the Salt Seas. 13.2. Charles F. Park, Jr: Minerals, People, and the Future. 13.3. M. Dane Picard: The Bingham Canyon Pit. 13.4. John G.C.M. Fuller: The Geological Attitude. 13.5. Michel T. Halbouty: Geology - for Human Needs. 14. Benevolent Planet . 14.1. James Lovelock: GAIA. 14.2. Fritjof Capra: The Web of Life. 14.3. Charles Morgan: Remember the Land. 14.4. Gabriele Kass-Simon: Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment. 14.5. Rachel Carson: Silent Spring. 14.6. S. George Philander: Who is El Nino?. 14.7. National Research Council: Essay on the Earth Sciences. 14.8. Diana Ackerman: The Round Walls of Home. 14.9. Ernest Zebrowski, Jr: The Butterfly Effect. 14.10. Carl Sagan: Pale Blue Dot. Sources. Index.