Table of Contents
Alaska Map 4
Preface 9
1 The Golden Triangle 19
2 Migration to Alaska 33
3 Coming into Yakutat 53
4 Abyss of Solitude 63
5 Spirit of the Tlingits 75
6 Mr. Pavlik & the Silver Chalice 87
7 The Inner Ordeal 111
8 Retreat to Kentucky 133
9 Solitary Mountain 157
10 Burial at Ankau Lagoon 173
11 Merciful Sea 199
12 Pasternak's Tree 211
13 Prelude to Merton's Alaska Journey 227
14 Igor and the Holy Mountain 249
15 Retracing Merton's Journey - 1968 269
16 The Monk Flies North 283
17 Merton's Alaska Journal 297
18 Dillingham 309
19 The Russian Icon 321
20 In the Land of Old Russian America 331
21 The Mad Woman Runs to the Dark 345
22 Contemplations From a Cabin 357
23 Ocean Cape 377
Thomas Merton's 1968 Alaska Itinerary 392
Bibliography 394
Acknowledgements 397
Publisher's Note 400
