Contents // Introduction 3 // PART ONE Wood // Prologue The Detour 23 // chapter one In the Realm of the Lithuanian Bison // i The Royal Beasts of Bialowieza 37 // ii The Last Foray 53 // iii Mortality, Immortality 61 // Chapter Two Der Holzweg: The Track Through the Woods // i The Hunt for Germania 75 // ii Blood in the Forest 81 // iii Arminius Redivivus 100 // iv Waldsterben 120 // chapter three The Liberties of the Greenwood // i Green Men 135 // ii Living in the Woods: Laws and Outlaws 142 // iii Hearts of Oak and Bulwarks of Liberty? 153 // iv The Pillars of Gaul 174 // v In Extremis 179 // X // CONTENTS // chapter four The Verdant Cross // i Grizzlies // ii Vegetable Resurrection // iii Pathfinders // iv The Verdant Cross // v Tabernacles // vi Volvos at the Sepulchre // PART Two Water // chapter five Streams of Consciousness // i The Flow of Myth // ii Circulation: Arteries and Mysteries // iii Holy Confluences // iv Fons Sapientiae // v Nile Brought to Tiber // vi Bernini and the Four Rivers // Chapter six Bloodstreams // i Sir Water Ralegh Loses His Drift // ii The Man in the Brown Paper Boat // iii Power Lines // iv The Political Theory of Whitebait // v Bodies of Water // vi The Waters of Isis: The Thames and the Nile // part three Roek // chapter seven Dinocrates and the Shaman: // Altitude, Beatitude, Magnitude // i The Woman on Mount Rushmore // ii Dinocrates and the Shaman // iii Elevations // iv Exorcising Pilate // v Calvaries of Convenience // vi ’ The
Last Sacro Monte? // 185 // 201 // 207 // 214 // 226 // 240 // *45 // 256 // 263 // 268 // 282 // 289 // 3°7 // 320 // 333 // 352 // 362 // 374 // 385 // 399 // 411 // 424 // 436 // 442 // CONTENTS // chapter eight Vertical Empires, Cerebral Chasms // i Delightful Horror // ii Vertical Empires, Cerebral Chasms // iii The Seat of Virtue // iv Conquests // v Albert the Great // vi Prospects of Salvation // 447 // 463 // 478 // 490 // 498 // 502 // PART FOUR Wood, Water, Rock // chapter nine Arcadia Redesigned // i Et in Arcadia Ego // ii Primitives and Pastorals // iii Rudeness and Confusion // iv An Arcadia for the People: The Forest // of Fontainebleau // v Arcadia under Glass // vi The Wild, Hairy Huckleberry // 517 // 526 // 538 // 546 // 560 // 571 // Notes 579 // A Bibliographic Guide 613 // Acknowledgements 623 // Index 625 // Color plates follow pages 18, 82, 114, 210,338, and 530.