Part I : THE ELEMENTS - "The Snow-Shoers" by George R. Stewart - "The Birthday Boys" by Beryl Bainbridge - "The Other Side of Luck" by Greg Child - "Cadillac Desert" by Marc Reisner - "The Seventh Man" by Haruki Murakami - "To Build A Fire" by Jack London - "A Descent into the Maelstrom" by Edgar Allan Poe Part II : BEASTS - "The Hyena" by Paul Bowles - "'Come Quick! I'm Being Eaten by a Bear!'" - by Larry Kanuit - "The Wolves of Aguila" by Peter Matthiessen Part III : THE UNKNOWN - "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service - "The Marfa Lights" by Judith M. Brueske - "They Bite" by Anthony Boucher - "The Red Man" by Eric Martin Part IV : OURSELVES - "Hunters in the Snow" by Tobias Wolff - "For Everything Its Season" by John Long - "McTeague" by Frank Norris
