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| Introduction | |
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| Giants | |
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| Gods | |
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| Last of the Maori Gods | |
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| The Hyena and the Baobabs | |
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| Goddesses | |
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| Saving the Great Mother Goddess | |
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| Any Fool Can Climb a Gum Tree | |
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| Redwoods with Heads in the Clouds | |
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| Nectar at the House of Representatives | |
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| The Bachelor and the Three Graces | |
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| Grizzlies | |
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| The Cedars They Turned into Totems | |
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| The Tree That Looks Like a Troll | |
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| Sherman v. Grant in the Sierras | |
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| At the Feet of the Emperor | |
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| Dwarfs | |
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| For Fear of Little Men | |
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| No Love Lost Between the Brothers | |
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| Bury Me in a Tomb of Granite | |
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| The Golden Cup of Joshua Tree Park | |
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| The Beachcomber of Monterey | |
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| In Bondage | |
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| Tie up My Feet, Darling, and I'll Live for Ever | |
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| Methuselahs | |
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| The Living and the Dead | |
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| The Old Man and the Mountain | |
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| The Kvilleken and the Green Man | |
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| Parsifal and the Holy Grail | |
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| They Say You Knew Julius Caesar | |
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| Justice under the Oak | |
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| Did the Dragon Grow a New Head? | |
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| Shrines | |
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| First a Staff, Then a Leaning Tower | |
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| How They Saved the Chapel Oak | |
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| The Tree from the Tree Where Buddha Sat | |
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| The Tree of the Great Healer | |
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| Tulips Too High for the Bees | |
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| The Tree with Nine Wives | |
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| Bowing Politely to the Camphor Trees | |
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| Homage to a Tree Like Proteus | |
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| The Other Tree under Which Buddha Sat | |
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| Dreams | |
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| Prisoners | |
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| The Men They Locked into Trees | |
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| Aliens | |
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| The Pink Beanstalks of Rotorua | |
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| A Line in Defence of the Governor | |
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| St Anthony's American Bouquet | |
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| A Fossil Aussie for Bussaco? | |
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| Knees-up at Santorso | |
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| Lovers and Dancers | |
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| Kiss me, I'm a Baobab | |
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| When the Band Played in the Tree | |
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| Snakes and Ladders | |
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| The Tree that Became a Village | |
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| The 800 Corkscrews of Verzy | |
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| Where Angels Didn't Fear to Tread | |
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| Trust Me, I'm a Python | |
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| Going down, not Coming up | |
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| Two Serpents in the Garden | |
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| Ghosts | |
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| Failing David Douglas | |
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| When Moses Followed Joshua | |
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| The Girl Who Lay under the Banyans | |
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| A Tomb with a View | |
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| Trees in Peril | |
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| Do the Loggers Always Win? | |
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| Ashes to Ashes | |
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| The Vanishing Totara | |
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| The Man Who Fought with Giants | |
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| Lay My Bones at Nolan Creek | |
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| Ten Green Bottles | |
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| Spirits of the Forest | |
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| The Elephant with Only One Foot | |
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| Sunset for the Baobabs of Morondava | |
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| Gazetteer | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Illustration credits | |
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| Index | |