Front cover; Kilvert's World of Wonders; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prologue

'Some Great Change Must Take Place'; Chapter 1. Piety, Progress and Print: Kilvert's Background; Chapter 2. Nature's Classroom; Chapter 3. Kilvert the Naturalist; Chapter 4. Steamboats, Viaducts and Railways; Chapter 5. Kilvert and Science and Technology; Chapter 6. Natural Law and the Mind; Chapter 7. Kilvert and Tyndall; Chapter 8. Miracles and Wonders; Chapter 9. Kilvert and Teaching; Chapter 10. Museums and Picture Galleries; Chapter 11. The Christian Geographer.

Chapter 12. 'Plunging into Ancient Chaos': Kilvert and EvolutionReferences; Select Bibliography; Back cover.