Contents
I 
By Luristan to Thule
So Were the Animals
Constantinople, Plague Summer
The Angel That Troubled the Waters
Hidden at the Zoo
Nachtmusik
Voladora
Slumgullion
Superman in Sunglasses
US
Life on Earth, Part Twelve: The Business Salmon
Thor Swimming
Blue Oranges
Aluminum Chlorohydrate
What All It Takes
Tyrannosaurus Sex
Musk Oxen Do Not Run Away
Neanderthal
Lungfish Conquers Depression
Instead of Acceptance
Dinosaur to Dragon
They Live Here
Manatee in Honey
Honeysuckle
Honey
Legend of the Woolly Mammoth
Where Thieves Break In and Steal
Lassie’s Left Eye
Accidentals
Chang and Eng View a Giraffe
Really Big Shew
Borodin: Symphony in B Minor
II: Circus Merk
Circus Merk at the End of the Flandrian Interglacial
Circus Merk’s Queen of Siberia
See Circus Merk’s Own Amazing Siamese Twins
Madame Vashti Sees the Future
Circus Merk and the Spectacular Conflagration
The Acts of the Elephants
The Hartunians Form the Tower in the Dark
Tornado Watch
Elephant Waltz
Professor Enj
’s Astounding Continuum Ray
Circus Merk, 25,000 B.C.
Toby the Sapient Pig
The End of Circus Merk’s Elephant Baseball Act
Dido Summons the Beetles
III
Capt. Robert Falcon Scott Returns to London
Warming: Aletsch Glacier
Whether or Not a Giraffe Lies Down to Sleep
Courthope on Pulau Run, 1620
Of What Earth Has Eaten, Something May Yet Be Found
Near Combe d’Arc
A Lizard, a Stone
Slides from Patagonia, 1896–99
Arsinoitherium
Solipsist in Love
Venus of Judith River
Positive White
Fossil Finds
His Hot Breath on Her Cheek
El Abuelo
The Wreck of the General Grant
Primate Behavior
Vegetables in Space
First Song for the Ba of Ptah-hotep
Buprestidae, Cantharidae
Alfred Russel Wallace in Venezuela
Cheese Penguin