The outlaw ocean: crime and survival in the last untamed frontier
Urbina, I. (2019). The outlaw ocean: crime and survival in the last untamed frontier. The Bodley Head: London. ISBN 9781847925862. 544 pp.
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Is gerelateerd aan:Urbina, I. (2019). De jungle op zee: de onbestrafte misdaden tegen mens en milieu op open zee. Atlas Contact: Amsterdam. ISBN 9789045031934. 560 pp., meer
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Crime
Pirates > Piracy
Security
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| Abstract |
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 under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortionists, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways: drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching. |
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