pt. I. 34, Primrose Lane: 1915-1939. ch. 1. The first World War
ch. 3. Coming to grips with who you are
ch. 4. Creeping like snail more slowly than Shakespeare
ch. 5. A scholarship won from the grip of fate
ch. 6. Education at last, and a scholarship lost to the grip of fate
ch. 7. First journeys to Cambridge
ch. 8. Then the undergraduate seeking a bubble reputation in the cannon's mouth
ch. 9. Dark clouds across the sun
ch. 10. The last of the old world
pt. II. The larger world of science: 1939-1958. ch. 11. Sir Arthur Eddington
ch. 12. At war with Germany
ch. 13. The Nutbourne saga
ch. 14. The saga continues
ch. 16. The origin of the chemical elements
ch. 18. An unknown level in carbon-12
ch. 19. Steps to the watershed
pt. III. Home is where the wind blows: 1959- . ch. 21. A vintage year
ch. 23. The Munros of Scotland
ch. 24. The Institute of Astronomy, but still in slow stages
ch. 25. The thirty-ninth step
ch. 26. The Bay of the Birds
ch. 27. Climbing the last Munro