Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The great stone face / Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Blades of grass / Stephen Crane
  • Ozymandias / Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Julius Caesar / William Shakespeare
  • Nature; A natural history of New York City / John Kiernan
  • The Sea: Say that he loved old ships / Daniel Whitehead Hicky ; Sea fever / John Masefield ; Life on the Mississippi / Mark Twain ; The fisher's widow / Arthur Symons
  • The Sky: First flight / Robert Tristram Coffin
  • The spirit of St. Louis / Charles Lindbergh
  • Conclusion - outer space.