Cover

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I – Colonial Encounters: Framing the Animal

Chapter 1. Roaring Tigers, Grunting Buffalo, and Slithering Snakes Along the Javanese Road: A Comparative Examination of Dutch and Indonesian Travel Writing

Chapter 2. Naming the World: Pieter Bleeker’s Travels and the Challenges of Archipelagic Biodiversity

Chapter 3. Empire as Horseplay? Writing the Java Pony in the Nineteenth Century through the Lenses of Mobility, Modernity, and Race

Chapter 4. The Sound of the Tokkeh and the Tjitjak: The Representation of the Tokay Gekko and Common House Gekko in Dutch-Indies Travel Literature

Chapter 5. Monkeys as Metaphor: Ecologies of Representation in Dutch Travel Writing about Suriname from the Colonial Period

Chapter 6. Becoming a Beast in the Long Run: Travelling Perpetrators and the Animal as Metaphor for Violence

Part II – Living Apart Together: Animals in Modern Travel Writing

Chapter 7. ‘Do You Really Think a Donkey Has No Heart?’ Betsy Perk and her Cadette

Chapter 8. Naturalist Lessons from the North: Human and Non-Human Animals in Niko Tinbergen’s Eskimoland (1934) and Jac. P. Thijsse’s Texel (1927)

Chapter 9. The Land of the Living Fossils: Animals in Travelogues for Dutch-Australian Emigrants, 1950-1970

Chapter 10. A Lesson in Happiness: Animals and Nostalgia in the Travel Stories of Leonhard Huizinga

Chapter 11. Noble Horse and Lazy Pig: Frank Westerman and Yvonne Kroonenberg in Quest of Domestic Animals

Notes on the Contributors

Index