Descripción
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet, but perhaps the wildest and least understood are the world’s oceans: too vast to police and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water host rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, offshore abortion providers, clandestine oil dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways all inhabit this hidden world. Drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation emanating from the fishing, oil and shipping industries on which the world’s economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a striking exposé, this work of reportage brings fully into view the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
Información
Author: Urbina Ian
Language: English
Publication date: 1 de agosto de 2020
Manufacturer: Folio, spol.s r.o.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, True crime, Non-fiction literature in english, History books in english
Type: Books - paperback
Pages: 576
ISBN/EAN: 9781101972373