My Life : A Record of Events and Opinions (Paperback)

Preface; 1. My relatives and ancestors; 2. Usk: my earliest memories; 3. Hertford: the home of my boyhood; 4. Hertford: my school life; 5. Hertford: my home life; 6. London workers, secularists and Owenites; 7. Bedfordshire: surveying; 8. Bedfordshire: Turvey; 9. Bedfordshire: Silsoe and Leighton Buzzard; 10. Kington and Radnorshire; 11. Brecknockshire; 12. Shropshire and Jack Mytton; 13. Glamorganshire: Neath; 14. First literary efforts; 15. Remarks on my character at twenty-one; 16. London and Leicester; 17. Residence at Neath; 18. The journey to the Amazon; 19. 'In memoriam'; 20. In London, and voyage to Singapore; 21. The Malay archipelago ? Singapore, Malacca, Borneo; 22. Celebres, the Moluccas, New Guinea, Timor, Java, and Sumatra; 23. Life in London, 1862?1871 ? scientific and literary work; 24. Home life ? my friends and acquaintances ? Sir Charles Lyell.