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Maritime Animals: Ships, Species, Stories Edited by Kaori Nagai

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 Animal ....

Jimmy Packham , Donna Landry , Anna Boswell , Lynette Russell , Nancy Cushing , Killian Quigley , David Haworth , Lea Edgar , Laurence Publicover , Thom Van Dooren , Derek Lee Nelson , Adam Sundberg , Maritime Animals , Canadian Arctic , 978 0 271 09537 , Animal Transportation , Human Animal Relations , Animal Companions , Animal Studies , Maritime Studies , Environmental Humanities , Oceanic Studies , Iocultural Assemblage , Onhuman Travelers , Galápagos Tortoise , Uatara Lizard ,