Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Contents xi
4. Part I.
5. The First Movement 3
6. The Armorer's Daughter 4
7. Fainted Desert 6
8. The Coloring of Experience 7
9. Letter to My Sister 8
10. Depth of Field 9
11. Pentimento 10
12. The Light Passages 12
13. Physical Properties 13
14. Bad Debts 14
15. From This Angle 15
16. Body of Work 16
17. What Dances 18
18. Going to Sleep 19
19. The Palace at 4 A.M. 20
20. Long-Distance Swimming 21
21. Part II.
22. Grisaille 25
23. Sleeping Beauty 26
24. Patches of Sky 27
25. Trappings 28
26. The Invention of Routine 29
27. White Fields 30
28. The Painter's Model 32
29. Fall 33
30. The Man on the Bed 34
31. Not You 35
32. To Make You Well 36
33. Sea Change 37
34. Closing 39
35. Part III.
36. Night Freight 43
37. Calibrations 44
38. Myopia 46
39. Fictions 47
40. Any Story 49
41. After Iceland, William Morris Dreams of Panama 51
42. Business 52
43. Companion to Ships and the Sea 53
44. Natural Forces 54
45. The Life of the Remittance Man 55
46. Knowing 57
47. Crossing the Plains 58
48. A Second or Third Dimension 59
49. Bearings 60
50. Field Glass 61
51. Hard Water 63