Prologue: Trial in Alaska
The reason why
The Galapagos that Darwin knew
Galapagos climate history: the eastern pacific and the ice-age Amazon
Pleistocene refuge and the arid Amazon hypothesis
The republic of the equator
Refuge theory expands in Brazil
the paradigm and the prophet
Amazon's bitter lakes
On the trail of Francisco de Orellana
Ice-age forest found
Pollen, Anacondas, and the cool, damp breeze of doubt
The paradigm strikes back
The adventure of the Darien Gap
The adventure of the floating forest
The adventure of the customs shed
The adventure of the inselberg that leaked
Ice Ages from an amazon Inselberg
Two thousand fathoms thy pollen lies
Maicuru, the last adventure
Paradigm coup de grace.