Ebook: The outlaw sea: a world of freedom, chaos, and crime
Author: Langewiesche William
- Tags: Accidents, Criminalité, Criminaliteit, Haute mer, Law of the sea, Marine marchande, Merchant marine, NATURE--Ecosystems & Habitats--Oceans & Seas, Pavillons, Scheepvaart, Schipbreuken, Seafaring life, Shipping, Ships--Nationality, Terrorism, Electronic books, Ships -- Nationality, Criminalité, NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Oceans & Seas
- Year: 2004
- Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st ed
- Language: English
- epub
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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