The dicey search for Shangri La -- Nature violent, Nature benign : a fatherless Indian boy finds his legacy -- A Robinson Crusoe of the North meets howling wolves on a frozen lake -- Enigmas in the land of Everest -- Consider a possibility : there IS a Heaven on Earth -- Traveling in anothe world : geysers erupt in snowfields and the Earth shakes where Chief Joseph's warriors passed -- Biking with Amy -- Dorothy, Jerri and Linda : lives joined by the Northern stars -- A reunion beneath the Matterhorn -- The ultimate adventure : the moon, space and heartache -- Sigurd Olson : a poet-guardian of the silences of the woods -- Tiny letters to the Corinthians and to a climber needing oxygen at 19,000 feet -- Magellan on a bicycle seat : around Lake Superior in seven days -- Kilimanjaro : its mysteries unsolved, its snowfields vanishing, but still a grail for seekers -- A dreamer I hardly knew, my father -- Sometimes the wilderness of Nature is an invitation to the child in us.