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Urbina, Ian.
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Urbina, Ian -- Travel.
Fisheries -- Corrupt practices.
Law of the sea.
Oceania.
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Urbina, Ian -- Travel.
Fisheries -- Corrupt practices.
Law of the sea.
Oceania.
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The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier / Ian Urbina.
by
Urbina, Ian.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Call #:
639.2 U73o
Subjects
Urbina, Ian -- Travel.
Fisheries -- Corrupt practices.
Law of the sea.
Oceania
.
ISBN:
9780451492944 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Journeys across the last untamed frontier
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiv, 544 p., 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : ill. (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-519) and index.
Contents:
Storming the Thunder -- The lone patrol -- A rusty kingdom -- The scofflaw fleet -- Adelaide's voyage -- Jail without bars -- Raider of the lost arks -- The middlemen -- The next frontier -- Sea slavery -- Waste away -- Fluid borders -- Armed and dangerous -- The Somali 7 -- Hunting hunters -- Epilogue: a void -- Appendix: reining in the outlaw ocean.
Summary:
"There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police and with no clear international authority, the oceans have become the setting for rampant criminality -- from human trafficking and slavery to environmental crimes and piracy. Urbina gives us a galvanizing account of the several years he spent exploring and investigating the high seas, the industries that make use of it, and the people who make their -- often criminal -- living on it. He traveled on fishing boats and freighters, visited port towns and hidden outposts. He witnessed both environmental vigilantes and transgressors in action, and faced a near-mutiny. He describes pursuing employment agencies and shipowners to hold them accountable for labor abuses, and traveling with a maritime repo man. Combining high drama, an investigative reporter's eye, and a commitment to social justice, this is both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé of some of the most disturbing realities that lie behind fishing, shipping, and the entire global economy."--From publisher.
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Travel writing.
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