reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of The Hunting of the Snark include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). Cultural impact The Hunting of the Snark has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre, plays, and music, including a piece for trombone by Norwegian composer Arne Nordheim (1975) a jazz rendition (2009), and (in French translationLa chasse au Snark) with music by Michel Puig for five actresses, eight actors and an instrumental ensemble of five players, premiered at the Festival d'Avignon in 1971. The poem was turned into a £2 million budget West End musical The Hunting of the Snark by Mike Batt. The poem has inspired literature, such as Jack London's The Cruise of the Snark (1911), the science-fiction short story "Chaos, Coordinated" (1947) by John MacDougal, Elspeth Huxley's With Forks and Hope (1964) and the title of Kate Wilhelm's novella "With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope." American author Edith Wharton (1862-1937) was fond of the poem as a child. Additionally, it has also been alluded to in fiction, such as Perelandra (1943) by C. S. Lewis; and Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner; in the sci-fi novel Startide Rising (1983) and its sequels the spaceship Streaker is described as a Snarkhunter-class exploration vessel. In the 1966 short story "Jonah" ("Jonas" in French) by Gérard Klein, "snark" is a term used for bioships that go berserk. television, such as "The Soul of Genius" episode of the British TV crime drama Lewis court rulings, such as in Parhat v. Gates (2008) a phenomenon in superfluidity graph theory hydrology, with a group of French hydrologists publishing in a well-known scientific journal a prose analogue to Carroll's poem, mocking the rivalries existing in the academic community geography, a Snark Island and Boojum Rock exist in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal botany, the Boojum tree in Baja California, Mexico Japanese animation, such as Ghost Hound (2007–08) video games, such as Half-Life (1998) and American McGee's Alice (2000) A song, "Nine Funerals of the Citizen King", by Henry Cow. Analysis Various themes have been suggested by scholars. According to biographer Florence Becker Lennon, the poem's "motif of loss of name or identity" is typical