Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Dedication vi
4. Acknowledgments vii
5. Part One
6. One Entering New Terrain 3
7. Two The Question 7
8. Three The Nunamiut 17
9. Four A River to Cross 33
10. Five Approaching God's—and Robert Marshall—Country 39
11. Six Memories from a Geology Past 47
12. Seven A Life-Changing Discovery 57
13. Part Two
14. Eight Seeking the Roots of a Paradox 67
15. Nine A Sheltered Childhood 73
16. Ten Across the Divide and into the Valley of Precipices 79
17. Eleven A Place of Refuge 85
18. Twelve Passing Through Grizzly Country 95
19. Thirteen Days of Rocks and Minerals 105
20. Fourteen Meeting Bear, Crossing the North Fork 113
21. Part Three
22. Fifteen Gates of the Arctic 113
23. Sixteen From Geologist to Writer and Greenie 151
24. Seventeen In the Shadow of Doonerak 157
25. Eighteen Wilderness Music 167
26. Nineteen Middle-Aged Discoveries 173
27. Twenty The Journey Ends 181
28. Twenty One Joined in Community 187
29. Epilogue 194
30. Return to Gates 195
31. References and Suggested Reading 211