Chapter 10 DRIFTING WITH SNAILS Stories from Hawai‘i

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. INTRODUCTION 1
6. Chapter 1 ISLANDS, OCEANS, WHALING SHIPS, AND THE MUTABLE ONTOLOGIES OF THE GALÁPAGOS TORTOISE 15
7. Chapter 2 SHIPWORMS AND MARITIME ECOLOGY IN THE AGE OF SAIL 38
8. Chapter 3 SHEEP FROM COWES Using a Shipboard Diary to Explore Animal Mobilities 56
9. Chapter 4 WEAPONS, COMMODITIES, SUBJECTS Stories of Horses at Sea 76
10. Chapter 5 REPATRIATING CASTAWAYS Travel Tales of the Tuatara 94
11. Chapter 6 RATTUS- HOMO- MACHINE Rats as Seafarers in the Nineteenth Century 115
12. Chapter 7 “BELOVED MEMBER OF OUR TEAM” Th e Sled Dogs of the St. Roch 134
13. Chapter 8 THE DECONTEXTUALIZED DEEP Fathoming the Whale 156
14. Chapter 9 THE ENCRUSTING OCEAN Life- Forms of the Spongy Wreck 177
15. Chapter 10 DRIFTING WITH SNAILS Stories from Hawai‘i 197
16. Contributors 215
17. Index 219