The outlaw sea · A world of freedom, chaos, and crime

- Authors
- Langewiesche, William
- Publisher
- North Point Press
- Tags
- politics , current events , general , political freedom & security - terrorism , transportation , haute mer , history , scheepvaart , water transportation , adventure , history - general history , law of the sea , oceans & seas , accidents , seafaring life , terrorism , ships , merchant marine , schipbreuken , criminaliteit , maritime history , pavillons , shipping , politics , criminalité , political science , general , ships & shipbuilding - general , marine marchande , nature , ecology
- ISBN
- 9780865477223
- Date
- 2002-07-30T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.46 MB
- Lang
- en
Maps on lining papers;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
An ocean world -- The wave makers -- To the ramparts -- On a captive sea -- The ocean's way -- On the beach
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 by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.
This is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.