This book examines the oceanic presence in life on Earth, and the ways that we engage with the oceanic worlds for play, pleasure, adventure and the pursuit of leisure and escape through tourism and travel.

Felicity Picken is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University. Her scholarship is concerned with the changing relations between humans and nature in the strange living out of the Anthropocene. She follows the emergence of the 'blue planet' as a significant social actor by exploring how relations with oceanic environments evolve through pleasurable encounters including art, heritage, tourism, and leisure.

Emma Waterton is a Leverhulme International Professor at the University of York, where she directs the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre. Her interests include: heritage, memory and affect; anti-colonial politics; migrant heritage-making; and climate justice in the Anthropocene. She is an author of four monographs.

Part 1: Shores

1. Seaside Concepts: Walking, and Writing, the Lurujarri Trail

Jennifer Eadie and Stephen Muecke

2. Remembering Resorts: The Heritagization of Tourism in Beachside Destinations

Zelmarie Cantillon

3. 'Oh I Do Like to be Beside the Seaside': Animals Belonging, Excluding, and Contesting

Neil Carr and Paul Tully

4. Entangling Early: Rebuilding Passion for Natural and Cultural Terroir for Post-Covid, Low-Carbon Societies

Adrian Franklin

Part 2: Surfaces

5. Endogenous Environmental Stewardship Interrupted? The Case for Bottom-up Innovation to Transform Marine Ecotourism Practices in Galápagos, Ecuador

Adam Burke

6. Protection, Preservation, and Place-Making in Surfing Space

Lyndsey Stoodley

7. Festivals of Traditional Boat Races Are So Much More Than Re-enactments!

Pádraig Ó Sabhain

8. Offshore Sailing: Oceans to Shorelines

Mike Brown

Part 3: Depths

9. Outdoor Swimming: Water, Wellbeing, and Wildness

Charlotte Bates and Kate Moles

10. Off the Verandah, and into the Ocean: Scuba Diving, Anthropology, and Tourism

Justin Raycraft

11. Submarine Museums: Jason deCaires Taylor and the Exhibitory Ocean

Killian Quigley

12. Of Sunken Attractions: Writing the Terraqueous into Undersea Tourism and Leisure

Felicity Picken