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The outlaw sea: a world of freedom, chaos, and crime

By William , Langewiesche

Book information

Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux;North Point Press
Year
2004
ISBN
0865475814, 9780865477223, 0865477221, 9781429954594, 1429954590
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
851 kB (871401 bytes)
Edition
1st ed
Pages
239 pages : maps\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Accidents;Criminalité;Criminaliteit;Haute mer;Law

Description

An ocean world -- The wave makers -- To the ramparts -- On a captive sea -- The ocean's way -- On the beach.;"Explores the ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. [The] forty-three thousand ships [that] ply the open ocean ... are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth ... Here is free enterprise at its freest ... But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews, and the growth of ... piracy and ... stateless terrorism"--Jacket.

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