Preface		xiii
Prologue: A Curious End		1	(8)
Chapter 1 A Nineteenth-Century Man		9	(12)
Chapter 2 Bugs Begins		21	(16)
Chapter 3 Bob Goes West		37	(12)
Chapter 4 Ticks		49	(20)
Chapter 5 Frozen		69	(36)
Chapter 6 Freezing		105	(18)
Chapter 7 The Idea		123	(24)
Chapter 8 The Deal		147	(28)
Chapter 9 The Magic		175	(18)
Chapter 10 The Inventor		193	(22)
Chapter 11 Beyond the Sunset, and the Baths		215	(16)
Acknowledgments		231	(2)
Bibliography		233	(6)
Illustration Credits		239	(2)
Index		241