“The southern oceans have been presented as a space of the limitless beyond, an untamed blank space inscribed on by imperial voyagers and writers in search of vastness. Boehmer brings erudition, passion and poetry to the project of generating a vast archive of filiations between indigenous cosmologies and the literary imagination. This book shows how transhemispheric conversations can move us beyond a northern solipsism to think with the planetary.” Dilip Menon, University of Witwatersrand.