1. Taking history offshore: Atlantic islands in European minds, 1400-1800 / John R. Gillis
2. Island bounds / Gillian Beer
3. 'The cane-land isles': commerce and empire in late eighteenth-century georgic and pastoral poetry / Markman Ellis
4. Bulama and Sierra Leone: utopian islands and visionary interiors / Deirdre Coleman
5. Pacific island encounters and the German invention of race / Vanessa Agnew
6. Cook in Tonga: terms of trade / Harriet Guest
7. Pitcairn's 'guilty stock': the island as breeding ground / Vanessa Smith
8. Abject bodies/abject sites: leper islands in the high imperial era / Rod Edmond
9. Derek Walcott's Omeros: representing St. Lucia, re-presenting Homer / Roger Moss
10. island of wandering souls: processes of creolisation, politics of emancipation and the problematic of absence on Reunion Island / Francoise Verges
11. God save the Falklands: postcolonial geographies of the Falklands/Malvinas / Klaus Dodds
12. gilded cage: from utopia to monad in Australia's island imaginary / Elizabeth McMahon
13. Afterword / Greg Dening.