Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index.
Contents:
The oceanic hunting grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews : whales as a resource and game in postfrontier America -- Robert Cushman Murphy and the national history of ocean islands : conservation and the myth of the inexhaustible ocean frontier -- Sensational management : William Beebe and the natural history of the ocean sublime -- Rachel Carson's The sea around us : the construction of oceancentrism -- Eugenie Clark and postwar ocean ichthyology : gender, oceanic natural history, and the domestication of the ocean frontier -- Technophobia and technophilia in the oceanic commons : Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American cold war.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.