Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. The Name of the Island 1
4. The Island Sings Its Name 5
5. And All Things Come to Pass 10
6. On Being Restless 11
7. Letter to General D'Albuquerque On the Pleasures of Taste 12
8. Letter to General D'Albuquerque On the Pleasures of Touch 14
9. Letter to General D'Albuquerque - On Desire 16
10. Letter to General D'Albuquerque - On Solitude 17
11. Letter to General D'Albuquerque - On Forgiveness 19
12. For the Devout Mouth 21
13. For the Record 23
14. Sleigh Ride 27
15. The Enemies of Progress 29
16. Necessary Things 31
17. The Emperor Considers the Fate of His Book 32
18. Last Battles 33
19. A Very Sick Man 34
20. One More Mile, One More Town 35
21. Face to Face 36
22. Brotherhood 38
23. And What of Africa? 39
24. Another Strange Night 41
25. For the Arrival of a Serious Enemy 43
26. Gold 45
27. Sunday School 47
28. The Sleeper 48
29. Blow the Wind Southerly 49
30. And Bring Him to Me 51
31. Courtship 52
32. Fire on Board 53
33. Man in a Room 55
34. What the Girl Who Was a Cabin Boy Heard or Said-Which Is Not Clear 56
35. Geography Lesson 57
36. On Hearing of the Exiled Prophet 59
37. In the Hull 61
38. Under the Feet of Angels 62
39. When All Else Fails 63
40. Felony 64
41. Contagion 65
42. The Enlightenment Sees Its Face in a Different Light 66
43. Even When They Smile They Smoulder 68
44. Nightwatch 70
45. A Dictionary of Survival 71
46. Memorial 72
47. Floating 73
48. Middle Passage 74
49. She Feels the Vanishing Sickness Move behind Her Navel 75
50. The Face of the Deep 76
51. Eclipse 77
52. Adrift 78
53. In the Maw 79
54. In The Wake 81
55. An Easter Confession, of Sorts 85
56. For Strength in the Face of a Powerful Enemy 86
57. Desire 87
58. Devilry 88
59. Aubade 89
60. For a Lover Who Keeps to Another Hemisphere 90
61. Sweeter and Dearer 91
62. Is It Not Sweet? 92
63. Southerly, Southerly 93
64. Moon 94
65. Now That She Is a Woman Herself 95
66. With the Art of Birds 96
67. She Observes the Blue Bird 97
68. A Riddle to Save Face 98
69. The Cabin Girl Sees on All Sides Evidence of the Dream 99
70. She Looks Up and Points 100
71. The Beautiful Flood 101
72. What Is Out There? 102
73. Some of the Women 103
74. Behind My Back 104
75. She Confesses 105
76. Land Ahead 107
77. Headwind 108
78. The Cabin Girl Sings, of Love, Reluctantly and into an Empty Sky 109
79. And When I Write the Muscles in My Chest Move as if in Flight 110
80. The Voyage Out 111
81. St. Helena-Time Line 113