CONTENTS

Cover

About the Author

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

INTRODUCTION

A Voice

PART ONE
Out of Country

1   Searching for Depth in Bonaire

2   A Short Passage in Northern Hokkaido

3   Orchids on the Volcanoes

4   Informed by Indifference

5   Flight

PART TWO
Indwelling

6   Apologia

7   In a Country of Light, Among Animals

8   The American Geographies

9   Effleurage: The Stroke of Fire

10   The Whaleboat

PART THREE
Remembrance

11   Replacing Memory

12   A Passage of the Hands

13   Learning to See

PART FOUR
An Opening Quartet

14   Death

15   Murder

16   Speed

17   Theft

Acknowledgments

Text Acknowledgments