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Therein, among other animals, we find Skogula, a young sperm whale journeying with his family group across the South Seas and his views on the surrounding world, both underwater and on land. This paper tells a story of historical natural events, from the viewpoint of a fin whale that travelled, rested and stranded in the Tagus estuary mouth (Lisbon, Portugal) during the early 16th century. It allows us to move across time and explore the past of this estuarine ecosystem. What kind of changes took place and how can literature and heritage contribute to understand peoples\u2019 constructions of past environments, local maritime histories and memories? In the second part of this essay we present a fictional short story, supported on historical documental sources and imagery research where Lily, the whale, is the main character. Thus, we see the Tagus estuary as perceived through this whale\u2019s-eye view. Finally, we discuss past earthquakes, whale strandings, the occurrence of seals and dolphins and peoples\u2019 perceptions of the Tagus coastal environment across time. We expect to make a contribution to the field of the marine environmental humanities. We will do so both by addressing, by means of this literary approach, the writing of \u201cnew thalassographies,\u201d oceanic historiographies and \u201chistoricities\u201d and by including all intervening actors\u2014people, animals and the physical space\u2014in the understanding of the past of more-than-human aquatic worlds.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/h8010047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,5]],"date-time":"2019-03-05T11:19:50Z","timestamp":1551784790000},"page":"47","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["The Voice of Skogula in \u2018Beasts Royal\u2019 and a Story of the Tagus Estuary (Lisbon, Portugal) as Seen through a Whale\u2019s-Eye View"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7895-0784","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Cristina","family":"Brito","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CHAM\u2014Centre for the Humanities, Faculdade de Ci\u00eancias Sociais e Humanas of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Avenida de Berna 26-C, 1096-061 Lisboa, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,3,5]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Cinco f\u00e1bulas da Ilha do Pr\u00edncipe","volume":"6","author":"Almeida","year":"1957","journal-title":"Revista do Instituto Superior de Estudos Ultramarinos"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"96","DOI":"10.1353\/cp.2014.0009","article-title":"Oceanic Historicities","volume":"26","author":"Ballard","year":"2014","journal-title":"The Contemporary Pacific"},{"key":"ref_3","unstructured":"Bettencourt, Jos\u00e9, Fonseca, Crist\u00f3v\u00e3o, Coelho, I. 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