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050 00 $aHE571$b.L36 2004
082 00 $a387.5/44$222
100 1 $aLangewiesche, William.
245 14 $aThe outlaw sea :$ba world of freedom, chaos, and crime /$cWilliam Langewiesche.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bNorth Point Press,$c2004.
300 $a239 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aMaps on lining papers.
500 $aGrateful acknowledgment is made to The Atlantic Monthly, where portions of this book originated.
505 0 $aAn ocean world -- The wave makers -- To the ramparts -- On a captive sea -- The ocean's way -- On the beach.
520 $a"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.
650 0 $aShipping.
650 0 $aMerchant marine.
650 0 $aTerrorism.
650 0 $aShips$xNationality.
650 0 $aLaw of the sea.
650 0 $aSeafaring life.
988 $a20040521
906 $0DLC