The memoir recalls schooldays in Grey Lynn, Auckland, including a brief period at Battley school. Collins worked for Warnock Bros., then Donald Bros., and then on boats plying the Hauraki Gulf. Accounts of two visits to Little Barrier Island (pp. 34-38); a visit to Macquarie Island in 1952 aboard the British frigate "St. Austral Bay" and a description of the island (pp. 41-46); Collins' time bush felling kauri and the many photographs he took there; also gum digging; a visit to Britain and Europe (pp. 88-110); his purchase of a farm at Takatu, which he sold in 1961, retaining one section; tribute to Tudor Collins by Bill Beattie of the newspaper 'New Zealand Herald', with some account of Collins' life and photography (pp. 114-18); description of European trip continues, followed by an account of a trip to America. (154 leaves)