Introduction: Restless men
1. Confined by the Gout : Perceptions of Men's Physical Health
2. The Ecstasies and Transports of the Soul : Emotional Journeys of Self-discovery
3. My Head Filled Early With Rambling Thoughts : Raising Boys and Making Men
4. Satisfied with Nothing but Going to Sea : Seafaring Lives and Island Hopes
5. To Think That This Was All My Own : Land, Independence and Emigration
6. The Middle Station of Life : the Anxieties of Social Mobility
7. A Surprising Change of Circumstances : Men's Ambivalent Relationship with Authority
8. The Centre of All My Enterprises : the Paradox of Families
Conclusion: "Robinson Crusoe untravelled..."