Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Oceanic hunting grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews : whales as a resource and game in postfrontier America -- 2. Robert Cushman Murphy and the national history of ocean islands : conservation and the myth of the inexhaustible ocean frontier -- 3. Sensational management : William Beebe and the natural history of the ocean sublime -- 4. Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us : the construction of oceancentrism -- 5. Eugenie Clark and postwar ocean ichthyology : gender, oceanic natural history, and the domestication of the ocean frontier -- 6. Technophobia and technophilia in the oceanic commons : Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American cold war -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
