Tabla de Contenidos: “…Woodstock and the first watersbed -- Burlington : blunders and bereavements -- Puritans, Vikings, Goths -- Congress and the Smithsonianian -- American history from the ground up -- Constantinople and the desert -- Missionary miseries, Mediterranean jaunts -- Debts and dromedaries -- Vermont public servant -- The English language -- Risorgimento and Civil War -- Turin and the Alps -- Man and nature : the making -- Man and nature : the meaning -- Last watersheds : Rome, Cravairola, Vallombrosa -- Retrospect : forming a life -- Prospect : reforming nature…”