ch. 2. My favorite recreation
ch. 3. Fight for wildlife pushes ahead/Chesapeake eels seek the Sargasso Sea
ch. 4. Ace of nature's aviators
ch. 7. Mattamuskeet: a national wildlife refuge
ch. 8. Memo to Mrs. Eales on Under the Sea-Wind
ch. 9. Lost worlds: the challenge of the islands
ch. 10. New York Herald-Tribune Book and Author luncheon speech
ch. 11. Jacket notes for the RCA Victor recording of Claude Debussy's La Mer/National Symphony Orchestra speech
ch. 12. Remarks at the Acceptance of the National Book Award for Nonfiction
ch. 13. Design for nature writing
ch. 14. Mr. Day's dismissal
ch. 15. Preface to the second edition of The Sea Around Us
ch. 16. Our ever-changing shore
ch. 17. Four fragments from Carson's field notebooks
ch. 19. Real world around us
ch. 20. Biological sciences
ch. 21. Two letters to Dorothy and Stanley Freeman
ch. 22. Lost woods: a letter to Curtis and Nellie Lee Bok
ch. 24. Vanishing Americans
ch. 25. To understand biology/preface to Animal Machines
ch. 26. Fable for tomorrow
ch. 27. Women's National Press Club Speech
ch. 28. New chapter to Silent Spring
ch. 29. Letter to Dr. George Crile, Jr.
ch. 30. Pollution of our environment
ch. 31. Letter to Dorothy Freeman.
