{"product_id":"9780865477223","title":"The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Outlaw Sea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): William Langewiesche\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Astonishing . . . Langeweische's narrative achieves an almost operatic grandeur  . . . As [he] demonstrates time and time again in this brave, often electrifying book, [the sea] is a world that is both new and very old, and we ignore it at our own peril.” —\u003ci\u003eNathaniel Philbrick, The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Sea \u003c\/i\u003eis impossible to put down.” —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780865477223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"North Point Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40673436532942,"sku":"9780865477223","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_e9e9d9e0-da0f-4f74-a5ee-d73584a5854c.jpg?v=1639883471","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780865477223","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}