Preface: An Event of Consciousness -- The Rise of Human Empire -- Part One: Jules Verne -- Life on the Loire -- The Empire of Paris -- Inventing the Geographic Romance -- The End of the World -- Part Two: William Morris -- Life on the Thames -- Pilgrimage to a Holy Land -- A River of Fire -- From Romance to Fantasy -- Part Three: Robert Louis Stevenson -- Romantic Engineering and Engineering Romance -- Two Voyages: Inland Waterways and High Seas -- Worlds of Wonder and Problematic Shores -- The Romance of Destiny -- Afterword: A Rolling Apocalypse.
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