Introduction: fields of dreaming
Secret engines of history
Earth speakers and dream travelers
Interpreters and diviners
The angel that troubles the waters
How dreaming gets us through
Masters of the three "only" things
Joan of Arc and the tree-seers
The beautiful dream spy of Madrid
The underground railroad of dreams
Mark Twain's rhyming life
The man who blew things up
Winston Churchill's time machines
Epilogue: the future history of dreaming.
