From the Book - First edition.
Introduction. "The most interesting animals in the world" : reconstructing histories of Andean camelids in transoceanic contact zones
From marvelous antidote to the poison of idolatry : the transatlantic significance of Andean bezoar stones during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
Autopsy in the colonial camelid contact zone
From object of curiosity to object of commerce : early efforts to ship living camelids to Europe
The science of acclimatization : llamas and alpacas in nineteenth-century France
Andean itineraries of nineteenth-century camelid science : the case of Charles Ledger
Camelids in Australia : The rise and fall of Charles Ledger's alpaca ambitions
U.S. camelid contact zones in the twentieth century : authenticity, exoticism, and celebrity
Conclusion. The afterlives of camelid contact zones.