ch. 2. My favorite recreation --
ch. 3. Fight for wildlife pushes ahead/Chesapeake eels seek the Sargasso Sea --
ch. 4. Ace of nature's aviators --
ch. 5. Road of the hawks --
ch. 6. Island I remember --
ch. 7. Mattamuskeet: a national wildlife refuge --
ch. 8. Memo to Mrs. Eales on Under the Sea-Wind --
ch. 9. Lost worlds: the challenge of the islands --
ch. 10. New York Herald-Tribune Book and Author luncheon speech --
ch. 11. Jacket notes for the RCA Victor recording of Claude Debussy's La Mer/National Symphony Orchestra speech --
ch. 12. Remarks at the Acceptance of the National Book Award for Nonfiction --
ch. 13. Design for nature writing --
ch. 14. Mr. Day's dismissal --
ch. 15. Preface to the second edition of The Sea Around Us --
ch. 16. Our ever-changing shore --
ch. 17. Four fragments from Carson's field notebooks --
ch. 18. Edge of the sea --
ch. 19. Real world around us --
ch. 20. Biological sciences --
ch. 21. Two letters to Dorothy and Stanley Freeman --
ch. 22. Lost woods: a letter to Curtis and Nellie Lee Bok --
ch. 24. Vanishing Americans --
ch. 25. To understand biology/preface to Animal Machines --
ch. 26. Fable for tomorrow --
ch. 27. Women's National Press Club Speech --
ch. 28. New chapter to Silent Spring --
ch. 29. Letter to Dr. George Crile, Jr. --
ch. 30. Pollution of our environment --
ch. 31. Letter to Dorothy Freeman.
