The outlaw sea
Subtitle: a world of freedom, chaos, and crime
By: William Langewiesche
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: North Point Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780965429511; 9780865475816
Subjects: Ships; Seafaring life; Merchant marine; Shipping; Schipbreuken; Scheepvaart; Law of the sea; Nationality; Terrorism; Criminaliteit
Description: "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.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.
Table of contents: title: An ocean world; title: The wave makers; title: To the ramparts; title: On a captive sea; title: The ocean's way; title: On the beach.