Table of Contents
Launch 1
Leviathan 7
Part I The World Beneath the Rims 17
1 First Contact 19
2 The Grand Old Man 29
3 Into the Great Unknown 40
Part II America's Pyramids 51
4 The Kingdom of Water 53
5 Flooding the Cathedral 69
Part III The Sweet Lines of Desire 89
6 Dories 91
7 The Golden Age of Guiding 102
8 Crystal Genesis 113
9 The Death of the Emerald Mile 124
Part IV The Master of the Emerald Mile 139
10 The Factor 141
11 Speed 155
12 Thunder on the Water 171
Part V The Gathering Storm 179
13 Deluge 181
14 Into the Bedrock 190
15 The Mouth of the Dragon 202
16 Raising the Castle Walls 214
Part VI The Maelstrom 229
17 The Grand Confluence 231
18 The White Demon 242
19 Ghost Boat 251
20 The Doing of the Thing 268
Part VII The Speed Run 279
21 The Old Man Himself 281
22 Perfection in a Wave 293
23 The Reckoning 306
24 Beneath the River of Shooting Stars 318
25 Tail Waves 327
26 The Trial 335
Epilogue: The Legend of the Emerald Mile 342
Acknowledgments 355
Notes on Sources 360
Notes 364
Select Bibliography 388
Photograph Credits 399
Index 401