Catalog Search Results
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The open ocean-that vast expanse of international waters-spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And, at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.
With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises, licit and illicit, that flourish in the privacy afforded...
Similar Searches
These searches are similar to the search you tried. Would you like to try one of these instead?
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request