Description
Book SynopsisExplores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail, presenting the ship as a place where the ocean and animal species interact in often surprising ways.
Trade Review“Maritime Animals provides a readable, highly entertaining, fascinating look at the roles animals and other non-human agents played in the making of the maritime world.”
—J. Rankin Choice
“With each chapter focusing on relationships between humans, ships, and different animal species, Maritime Animals redefines the scope of what we see as maritime into a less anthropocentric conceptualization of ocean-based interactions. Through animal case studies, the authors present the maritime world as a complex ecology of human and nonhuman interactions, mediated through the technologies of ships. This book makes valuable contributions in particular to animal studies, environmental history, ecocriticism, and maritime history.”
—Jakobina Arch,author of Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan
“The ten chapters in Maritime Animals challenge academic norms, be it through the unusual species being written about (snails, worms, reptiles), or via the uncanny theorizations of space and time, as explored from the perspective of nonhuman species. This collection pushes maritime studies into new directions, including a better appreciation of relationships between animals and shipping, history and ecology, pests and colonialism.”
—Andrew Kincaid,author of Postcolonial Dublin: Imperial Legacies and the Built Environment
Table of ContentsList 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
