Two Prefaces
Theoretical Preface: Epochal Claims and the Age of Shipwreck
Narrative Preface: Ulysses and the Global Ecology
1. The Wet and the Dry: Shipwreck Hermeneutics
2. Angry Gods: Theologies of the Ocean
3. Isle of Tempests: Bermuda in the Early Modern Imagination
Interchapter: Pearls That Were His Eyes
4. Metis: Jeremy Roch
5. Metis: Edward Barlow
Interchapter: Philosopher at the Masthead
6. “We Split”: Sea Poetry and Maritime Crisis
7. Castaways: Surviving Disaster
Three Short Epilogues
The Bright Light of Shipwreck
The Bookfish
Seven Shipwrecked Ecological Truths
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index