Cover -- Contents -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.