Contents

• [front matter]
  • Sun-Chaser
  • [frontispiece]
  • [title page recto]
  • [title page verso]
  • [dedication and epigraphs]
  • Introduction & Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1: Star Gazing
  • Obsessions
  • Distractions
  • Star Gazing
  • [notes]
• Chapter 2: War: 1942-46
  • Childbirth
  • Divine Wind
  • Peace
  • [notes]
• Chapter 3: Butterflies & Headhunters
  • Heading West
  • On the Job Market
  • "We'll Build a Nest"
  • Scouting and Parenting
  • Butterflies, Missionaries, Headhunters
• Chapter 4: The Living Maya
  • Getting to know the Lacandons
  • Trouble Aloft
  • Reunion
  • Chemax and Coba
  • [notes]
• Chapter 5: More Mayan Explorations
  • Mayhem, Polygamy, Incest
  • Exploring the Sacred Lake: Hide and Seek the Cayuco: "To Rest, to Fish, and to Pray"
  • In the Caves of the Dead
  • A Mountain Trek; Teen Federales; the Arana's Revenge; a Room with a View
  • [notes]
• Chapter 6: Sun Chasing
  • Invention, Philanthropy, Darkness at Noon
  • The Guatemalan Connection
  • Oaxaca
  • Darkness at Noon
• Chapter 7: Tree Houses & Comets
  • Adventure Montage
  • Tree Houses
  • Sun Snakes and Comet Watchers
• Chapter 8: Atop El Fortin
  • Stars Above the Pinnacle
• Chapter 9: To the Stars through Labor
  • From Dreams to Reality
  • Border Crossing and High Jinks
  • Oaxaca One Last Time
• Chapter 10: Doing It First
  • Proposition 13
  • Rocking the Boat
  • Pay-back Time
  • Doing it First
  • Heading East
• Conclusion: Intimations of Mortality
  • The Old Man in the Back Seat
  • Verse and Meditations
  • A Sun-Chaser's Heroes
  • The Astronomy Capitol of the Universe
  • Sun-chasing at La Posada
  • [the end]
• [endpiece]
• Post-Scriptum
• About the Author

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