• Introduction; 1. The Blue Humanities: Crisscrossing Boundaries; 2. Troubled Seas: Oceanic Imagination; 3. Troubled Seas: Scientific Accounts; 4. Distressed Freshwaters; 5. Epilogue.

'Dripping with erudition, wet with insight, and soaked with common sense, this is a book that anyone in the Environmental Humanities needs to read. Serpil Oppermann brings together materials from an enormous ocean and compresses it into pearls. In so doing, Oppermann provides data that compellingly and convincingly reveal the importance of salt and fresh water narratives for our past, present, and future. Arguing from a perspective that is often very local, Oppermann's discussions bear fundamentally on important global issues - indeed, the most important issues we face today.' Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University

• Introduction; 1. The Blue Humanities: Crisscrossing Boundaries; 2. Troubled Seas: Oceanic Imagination; 3. Troubled Seas: Scientific Accounts; 4. Distressed Freshwaters; 5. Epilogue.

'Dripping with erudition, wet with insight, and soaked with common sense, this is a book that anyone in the Environmental Humanities needs to read. Serpil Oppermann brings together materials from an enormous ocean and compresses it into pearls. In so doing, Oppermann provides data that compellingly and convincingly reveal the importance of salt and fresh water narratives for our past, present, and future. Arguing from a perspective that is often very local, Oppermann's discussions bear fundamentally on important global issues - indeed, the most important issues we face today.' Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University

• Introduction; 1. The Blue Humanities: Crisscrossing Boundaries; 2. Troubled Seas: Oceanic Imagination; 3. Troubled Seas: Scientific Accounts; 4. Distressed Freshwaters; 5. Epilogue.

'Dripping with erudition, wet with insight, and soaked with common sense, this is a book that anyone in the Environmental Humanities needs to read. Serpil Oppermann brings together materials from an enormous ocean and compresses it into pearls. In so doing, Oppermann provides data that compellingly and convincingly reveal the importance of salt and fresh water narratives for our past, present, and future. Arguing from a perspective that is often very local, Oppermann's discussions bear fundamentally on important global issues - indeed, the most important issues we face today.' Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University