Cover -- Author Bio & Praise -- Other Books -- Title -- Imprint -- Dedication -- Map -- Contents -- PART ONE Land of the Tree-kangaroo -- CHAPTER ONE Ambush -- CHAPTER TWO The getting of wisdom -- CHAPTER THREE The new world -- CHAPTER FOUR A million years of rain -- CHAPTER FIVE Zombie busters -- CHAPTER SIX The walk -- CHAPTER SEVEN Mabi's world -- CHAPTER EIGHT Nothing is nothing -- PART TWO People of the Rainforest -- CHAPTER NINE Thiaki's theatre of the absurd -- CHAPTER TEN Evolution, interrupted -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The other side of the pincer -- CHAPTER TWELVE Desultory little massacres
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Fugitive pieces -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The final stand? -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN From little things . . . -- Picture section -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index