Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories (Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures)

This volume explores nonhuman animals’ involvement with human maritime activities in the age of sail―as well as the myriad multispecies connections formed across different geographical locations knitted together by the long history of global ship movement. Far from treating the ship as a confined space defined by the sea, Maritime Animals considers the ship’s connections to broader contexts and networks and covers a variety of locations, from the Canadian Arctic to the Pacific Islands. Each chapter focuses on the oceanic experiences of a particular species, from ship vermin, animals transported onboard as food, and animal specimens for scientific study to livestock, companion and working animals, deep-sea animals that find refuge in shipwrecks, and terrestrial animals that hunker down on flotsam and jetsam. Drawing on recent scholarship in animal studies, maritime studies, environmental humanities, and a wide range of other perspectives and storytelling approaches, Maritime Animals challenges an anthropocentric understanding of maritime history. Instead, this volume highlights the ways in which species, through their interaction with the oceans, tell stories and make histories in significant and often surprising ways. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Anna Boswell, Nancy Cushing, Lea Edgar, David Haworth, Donna Landry, Derek Lee Nelson, Jimmy Packham, Laurence Publicover, Killian Quigley, Lynette Russell, Adam Sundberg, and Thom van Dooren. COVER Front Copyright Page Table of Contents INTRODUCTION Chapter 1: ISLANDS, OCEANS, WHALING SHIPS, AND THE MUTABLE ONTOLOGIES OF THE GALÁPAGOS TORTOISE Chapter 2: SHIPWORMS AND MARITIME ECOLOGY IN THE AGE OF SAIL Chapter 3: SHEEP FROM COWES: Using a Shipboard Diary to Explore Animal Mobilities Chapter 4: WEAPONS, COMMODITIES, SUBJECTS: Stories of Horses at Sea Chapter 5: REPATRIATING CASTAWAYS: Travel Tales of the Tuatara Chapter 6: RATTUS-HOMO-MACHINE: Rats as Seafarers in the Nineteenth Century Chapter 7: “BELOVED MEMBER OF OUR TEAM”: The Sled Dogs of the St. Roch Chapter 8: THE DECONTEXTUALIZED DEEP: Fathoming the Whale Chapter 9: THE ENCRUSTING OCEAN: Life-Forms of the Spongy Wreck Chapter 10: DRIFTING WITH SNAILS: Stories from Hawai‘i Index "Explores 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"-- Provided by publisher