Part 1 From the Arctic Circle to the Alaskan Coast
Land of No Trees at All 3
Land of Scrawny Trees and Huge Miracles 9
Of Howls and Timberline 19
Part 2 The Coast of British Columbia: Home of the Old Growth Rain Forest
The Dance of the Great Brown Bears 77
Rivers Inlet South to Cape Caution 89
The Classic Hecate Lowlands 99
Part 3 The Lost Continent of Cascadia
The Wide Bights of Cape Scott 115
Meares Island, Clayoquot Sound: West Coast of Vancouver Island 127
The Incredible Lightness of Trail Building: Clayoquot Sound 139
Part 4 The Olympic Edge from Ice to Ocean Bottom
Mount Olympus's Mighty Blue Glacier 149
The Forest Canopy: A Species Democracy 157
A Forest Swimming: From Detritus to Salmon 169
Though a Hand Lens Lightly 177.
