List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kaori Nagai
1. Islands, Oceans, Whaling Ships, and the Mutable Ontologies of the Galápagos Tortoise
David Haworth and Lynette Russell
2. Shipworms and Maritime Ecology in the Age of Sail
Derek Lee Nelson and Adam Sundberg
3. Sheep from Cowes: Using a Shipboard Diary to Explore Animal Mobilities
Nancy Cushing
4. Weapons, Commodities, Subjects: Stories of Horses at Sea
Donna Landry
5. Repatriating Castaways: Travel Tales of the Tuatara
Anna Boswell
6. Rattus- Homo- Machine: Rats as Seafarers in the Nineteenth Century
Kaori Nagai
7. “Beloved Member of Our Team”: The Sled Dogs of the St. Roch
Lea Edgar
8. The Decontextualized Deep: Fathoming the Whale
Jimmy Packham and Laurence Publicover
9. The Encrusting Ocean: Life- Forms of the Spongy Wreck
Killian Quigley
10. Drifting with Snails: Stories from Hawai‘i
Thom van Dooren
List of Contributors
Index
Kaori Nagai is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Kent. She is the author of Empire of Analogies: Kipling, India and Ireland and Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire.
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