Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface: An Orchis' Heart
Introduction: An Enchanted World
CHAPTER 1 Darwin and Dickinson, Childhood Portraits
CHAPTER 2 Darwin the Naturalist Shropshire, Edinburgh, Cambridge, 1809-1831; Darwin, to Age 22
CHAPTER 3 Nature's People: Scientific Amherst Amherst, 1830-1836; Dickinson, to Age 6
CHAPTER 4 Juggler, Geologist, Dark Horse Aboard the Beagle, 1832-1836; Darwin, Age 23-27
CHAPTER 5 Dickinson the Bold Amherst, 1836-1847; Dickinson, Age 6-16
CHAPTER 6 The Leading Scientific Men London and Amherst, 1836-1845
CHAPTER 7 Religion of Geology South Hadley, Amherst, 1847-1851; Dickinson, Age 16-20
CHAPTER 8 A Slow-Sailing Ship Downe, Great Malvern, 1842-1851; Darwin, Age 33-42
CHAPTER 9 Excitement in the Village Amherst, 1851-1857; Dickinson, Age 20-26
CHAPTER 10 On the Origin of Species Downe, 1858-1860; Darwin, Age 49-51
CHAPTER 11 If You Saw a Bullet Amherst, 1857-1861; Dickinson, Age 26-31
CHAPTER 12 Wild Experiment Downe and Amherst, 1860-1862
CHAPTER 13 Melody or Witchcraft? Amherst, 1862-1866
CHAPTER 14 Mutual Friends Downe and Amherst, 1866-1882
CHAPTER 15 Perfectly Disinterested: Darwin's Last Days
CHAPTER 16 Nature Is a Haunted House: Dickinson Faces Death
Afterword: Hope Is a Strange Invention Darwin and Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliographic Note
Bibliography
Index