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A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
North Point Press
June 2005
256 pages
ISBN: 0865477221
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Non-Fiction
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.
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