CONTNEIDO:

Prologue: The distance traveled

1. Pacific northwest: One week before the mast

2. Tahiti: Sic transit venus

3. To Bora-Bora: Sold a pup

4. New Zealand: Warriors, still

5. Botany bay: In the pure state of nature

6. The great barrier reef: Wrecked

7. Homeward bound: The hospital ship

8. Savage island: The hunt for red banana

9. Tonga: Where time begins, and goes back

10. North Yorkshire: a plain, Zealous Man

11. London: Shipping out, again

12. Alaska: Outside men

13. Hawaii: the last island

14. Kealakekua bay: A bad day on black rock

Epilogue: A period to his labours

Notes on sources