Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Dedication ix
4. Driving North 1
5. By the St. Croix River 2
6. Wachusett Reservoir 3
7. Maids in Yellow 4
8. Lake Utopia 5
9. West of Rousses Point, New York 6
10. Glen Nevis, Ontario 7
11. Superior Pulp, LLC 8
12. Near Wawa, Ontario 9
13. Elderly Couple Having Breakfast at a Truck Stop 10
14. In Praise of Surgeons 11
15. Crossing the Prairies 12
16. Yellow-Headed Blackbirds at Dusk 13
17. The Man Behind the Wheel, Fort Nelson, B.C. 14
18. Alaska Highway Lodge, 1966 15
19. House Sparrows at Glennallen, Alaska 16
20. Under Heaven's River 17
21. Li Bai Wakes in Broad Pass 19
22. Li Bai and the Magpie 20
23. Magpie's Wife 21
24. Li Bai Meets a Brown Bear 22
25. The Brown Bear 23
26. Trapper 24
27. Li Bai Arrives at Wonder Lake 25
28. Almost Fall 26
29. The North Fork Wolves 27
30. Li Bai Discovers Adolph Murie's Cabin 28
31. Coal Creek 29
32. Heaven's River 30
33. Li Bai Rides a Celestial Dolphin Home 31
34. The Brown Bear's Lament 32
35. The Magpies Build a Nest in Honor of Li Bai 33
36. Coda: 34
37. Two Photographs 35
38. Russian Orthodox Priest 36
39. The Night Sky 37
40. Black-Capped Chickadee 39
41. Paper Birch 40
42. Christmas Wolves 41
43. Rime Ice 42
44. Making Applesauce on a Snowy Afternoon 43
45. Common Merganser on a Winter Morning 44
46. Snow Squall 45
47. Snow-Blind Rivers 46
48. Benediction 47
49. Goldfinches at a Feeder 48
50. Saw-Whet Owl in a Hemlock Tree 49
51. A Magical Fox 50
52. The Winter Sky 51
53. Moonlight 52
54. In Praise of Visible Things 53
55. Basho 54
56. Thinking of Basho While Walking at Dawn 55
57. Greening 56
58. In this the First long Light of Spring 57
59. At Delta Junction 58