I. Capeloa Gil: Introduction - Part I - Water Writing and Modernity - M. Schmeling: Navigatio poetae: L'eau inspiratrice chez les écrivains de la modernité - H. Buescu: Water that Flows Up and Down the River... - M. Schmitz-Emans: Water Writing: Fluid Languages and the Voices of the Sea - I. Lopez: Beachfront Property for the American Navy: Vieques Island in Mayra Montero's The Captain of Sleepers - B. Wolf: Robinson or the Nomos of the Sea - K. Joslin: Rachel Carson and the Song of the Sea - Part II - Fluid Cultures and Poetics - I. Capeloa Gil: Hydrography, or the Anxiety of the Sea. The Nautical Chart as a Cultural Model - A. Lopes: Liquid Translation: On the Portuguese (Sub)Version of Walter Scott's The Pirate - O. Madany: The Sea and the Desert in Modern Egyptian Writing - T. Bailey: Listening to the Music of the Ompompanoosuc - T. Ferreira: The Woman and the Sea Beyond: On Sophia de Mello Breyner - A.-M. Aly: Iris Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea as a Maritime Pastiche - J. Ferreira: The Portuguese Fishermen of Provincetown, Massachusetts: An Oral History - Introduction