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Author:

Urbina, Ian, author.

Title:

The outlaw ocean : journeys across the last untamed frontier / Ian Urbina.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiv, 544 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Subject:

Urbina, Ian--Travel.
Fisheries--Corrupt practices.
Law of the sea.
Oceania.
Ocean.
Travel writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [423]-519) and index.

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. Now, in The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina--prize-winning reporter for The New York Times--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, The Outlaw Ocean 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.

ISBN:

0451492943
9780451492944

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1079847943

LCCN:

2019001735

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