Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Information: Pilgrimage in a Church of Poems; Spies, Maps and Facts; A Petit-Monde; Le Petit Monde and the Ocean Seas; Saint-Jacques and the World; Pilgrimage Architecture; Chains of Being and Chains of Words; The Presence of the Word: Ango Peregrino; Archives and Savages; Ships of Stone; The Poetry of Ships; 2 Expertise: The Heavens Inscribed; A Poetic Astrolabe; A Computer of Brass; Navigating an Audience; Knights of Inscription; Translations

3 Translation: Translating the Body of ThoughtVoyages and Conjurations; The Mind and the Body of Thought; Germs and Money; New Men: Then and Now; A Sacred Thought; Crossing Frontiers; Cartographies of the Body and Maps for the Mind; Bodies and Minds; 4 Scale: The Heart of the Matter; Expert Territory: Words and Things; Bodily Grammars; Anatomy of the Heart; Sursum corda: Lift up our Hearts Together; Concordia: The Heart and the Thought of Man; 5 Confidence: A Balance of Trust; A Kid and a Posse; Anchors Aweigh; Malagasy Interludes; Beyond the Islands of Fear: Where Am I Redux

Ticou France et France TicouThe Captain and the Harbor Master; A Balanced Thought; Between Balance and Incommensurability; Tipping the Scales; 6 Replication: Replicating a Thought; The Scales of Death; Consultations; A Last Chance; A Poet's Lament and the Narrative Redemption of a Journey; The Death of a Poet; The Mapping of Silence; A Great Captain Speaks; Halting Replication; Drifting Names; The Discovery of the Age of Discovery, or New Uses for Old Names; Epilogue: Pirate Epistemologies; Bibliography; Index