Often called The Crusoe of Lonesome Lake, because of a best-selling book written by the American journalist Leland Stowe, Edwards has gone on to live at least one more life and reveals himself to be a pioneer of a breed that no longer exists. Best known for his almost single-handed rescue of the trumpeter swans from extinction in North America, Edwards now related in his own words other aspects of his long, varied life, including experience with his missionary parents in India, as a telegraph operator under fire in World War I and his eventual return to Lonesome Lake.

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1. In the End Was the Beginning
2. Looking Backwards
3. A Dream is Seen
4. A Lake for the Naming
5. Bears in the Backyard
6. An Army Interlude
7. Peace and Almost Quiet
8. No Longer Lonesome at Lonesome Lake
9. The Population Grows
10. Farming for Fur
11. One Thing After Another
12. Keeper of the Swans
13. If Swans Can Fly, So Can I!
14. Wings Over the Wilds
15. Further Flights and Fancies
16. Nature Has Her Way
17. Good Shots, Bad Shots, Guides and Other Fools
18. Fame but not Fortune Comes to Lonesome Lake
19. New Horizons
20. High and Low Tides
21. Lessons In Survival