Maritime animals : ships, species, stories / edited by Kaori Nagai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nagai, Kaori, editor.

Series:

Animalibus Series

Animalibus : of animals and cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals--Transportation--History.

Animals.

Human-animal relationships--History.

Human-animal relationships.

Ocean travel--History.

Ocean travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 229 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Islands, oceans, whaling ships, and the mutable ontologies of the Galápagos tortoise

Shipworms and maritime ecology in the age of sail

Sheep from Cowes : using a shipboard diary to explore animal mobilities

Weapons, commodities, subjects : stories of horses at sea

Repatriating castaways : travel tales of the tuatara

Rattus-homo-machine : rats as seafarers in the nineteenth century

"Beloved member of our team" : the sled dogs of the St. Roch

The decontextualized deep : fathoming the whale

The encrusting ocean : life-forms of the spongy wreck

Drifting with snails : stories from Hawai'i.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271096407

0271096403

9780271096391

027109639X

OCLC:

1411045783