Cover -- Contents -- Preface: An Orchis' Heart -- Introduction: An Enchanted World -- Chapter 1: Darwin and Dickinson, Childhood Portraits -- Chapter 2: Darwin the Naturalist: Shropshire, Edinburgh, Cambridge,1809-1831 -- Darwin, to Age 22 -- Chapter 3: Nature's People:Scientific Amherst: Amherst, 1830-1836 -- Dickinson, to Age 6 -- Chapter 4: Juggler, Geologist, Dark Horse: Aboard the Beagle,1832-1836 -- Darwin, Age 23-27 -- Chapter 5: Dickinson the Bold: Amherst, 1836-1847 -- Dickinson, Age 6-16 -- Chapter 6: The Leading Scientific Men: London and Amherst, 1836-1845 -- Chapter 7: Religion of Geology South Hadley, Amherst, 1847-1851 -- Dickinson, Age 16-20 -- Chapter 8: A Slow-Sailing Ship: Downe, Great Malvern, 1842-1851 -- Darwin, Age 33-42 -- Chapter 9: Excitement in the Village: Amherst, 1851-1857 -- Dickinson, Age 20-26 -- Chapter 10: On the Origin of Species: Downe, 1858-1860 -- Darwin, Age 49-51 -- Chapter 11: If You Saw a Bullet: Amherst, 1857-1861 -- Dickinson, Age 26-31 -- Chapter 12: Wild Experiment: Downe and Amherst, 1860-1862 -- Chapter 13: Melody or Witchcraft?: Amherst, 1862-1866 -- Chapter 14: Mutual Friends: Downe and Amherst, 1866-1882 -- Chapter 15: Perfectly Disinterested: Darwin's Last Days -- Chapter 16: Nature Is a Haunted House: Dickinson Faces Death -- Afterword: Hope Is a Strange Invention: Darwin and Dickinson in the Twenty-First Century -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- Bibliography -- Index.
