Chapter 1 Two Wee Bookshops 11
Chapter 2 The Start of Books and Business 19
Chapter 3 Know When to Hold 'Em 31
Chapter 4 Naseby 37
Chapter 5 1963 45
Chapter 6 Off to the Navy 56
Chapter 7 Stewart Island and Meeting Lance 66
Chapter 8 Working for the Archbishop 77
Chapter 9 Allaboard 84
Chapter 10 My Brief Career as a Burglar 96
Chapter 11 Tragedy Returns 112
Chapter 12 Arriving in Rabaul 118
Chapter 13 Please Worry 127
Chapter 14 Letters From Home 144
Chapter 15 Slipping Away 154
Chapter 16 Do not Go Gentle 165
Chapter 17 The Madhatter'S Mansion 179
Chapter 18 Marriage, Marijuana and the Menagerie 194
Chapter 19 A Kind of Magic 208
Chapter 20 Resist Much, Obey Little 221
Chapter 21 Fighting for the Opposition 230
Chapter 22 Home Beckons 243
Chapter 23 Arriving Home 253
Chapter 24 The Adventures of Lance 266
Chapter 25 Finding My Son 281
Chapter 26 My Blue-Eyed Boy 292
Chapter 27 The Bookseller at the End of the World 299
Chapter 28 Home Street 311
Acknowledgements 318
About the Author 320