Coral empire -- Mad love -- Williamson and the photosphere -- The Field Museum-Williamson undersea expedition -- Under the sea -- Williamson in Australia -- Hurley and the floor of the sea -- Hurley and the Australian Museum expedition -- Pearls and savages -- Hurley and the Torres Strait diver -- Explorers and modern media -- Color and tourism -- The Anthropocene
Summary
Ann Elias traces the history of two explorers whose photographs and films of tropical reefs in the 1920s cast corals and the sea as an unexplored territory to be exploited in ways that tied the tropics and reefs to colonialism, racism, and the human domination of nature
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
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