Part I.

The first horizon

I discover my birthplace

Introducing job's cycle

Humours of the last frontier

Treasured portrait

I meet the August ancestors

Introduction to exile

Exile

First taste of new world

Subjective interlude

God's fields

Those child transgressions

Tales strange and varied

Vignettes of a private world

Selkirk interlude

False security

Part II

The American scene opens

New friends of novel fortune

The scene brightens

Fresh misfortune

Solitary Christmas

The world enlarges

Meeting destiny

Part III.

New worlds to conquer

Adolescent conditioning

Tales out of time

I discover drama

Darker reason

Again green pastures

Magic moonlight

Deep interval

Forced decision

The north once more

Trails of a job hunter

Readjustment and the righteous few

A kitchen-view of society

The working world

And so farewell

Back to the Canadian scene

My prairie argosy

The face of virtue

I settle in my own country

Homestead and boarding-house

Birth of an author

So dreams come true