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The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier

Urbina, Ian, author

Overview

\"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 ... [The author] 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 aboard a police ship conveying him to a meeting point miles from the coast. 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 for detail, and a commitment to social justice, [this book] is both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé of some of the most disturbing realities that lie behind fishing, shipping, and, by turn, the entire global economy\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Subject: Urbina, Ian Travel. / Fisheries Corrupt practices. / Law of the sea. / Oceania. / TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure. / TRAVEL / Asia / General. / TRUE CRIME / General. / Ocean.
• ISBN: 9780451492944

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
SH319.A2 U73 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE