Alain Corbin is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Translator's Note
Acknowledgements
Prelude
Chapter 1: The Inscrutable Wind
Chapter 2: The Winds of the Common Folk
Chapter 3: The Aeolian Harp
Chapter 4: New Experiences of the Wind
The Balloon "At the Head of the Wind"
The Sandstorm in the Desert
The Wind in the Sequoias
Chapter 5: The Tenacity of the Aeolian Imagination in the Bible
Chapter 6: The Epic Power of the Wind
Chapter 7: The Fantasy of the Wind in the Enlightenment
Chapter 8: Gentle Breezes and Caressing Currents
Chapter 9: The Enigma of the Wind in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 10: Short Strolls in the Wind of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 11: The Wind, the Theater, and Cinema
Postlude
Notes
Index