The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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Amazon.com It’s becoming harder to disappear on this increasingly connected, overpopulated planet, so if you're feeling hemmed in, maybe you should buy a boat. Three-fifths of the planet is covered in water, an expanse so vast that anyone can seemingly get away with anything without consequence. The high seas have always been where the illicit action is, and Ian Urbina—a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist—took to the waves to find it. And did he ever. Urbina traveled the globe on a risky mission, hopping boats to amass a catalog of just about every contemptible human activity imaginable. Smugglers, traffickers, pirates, poachers, stowaways, mercenaries, and polluters fill The Outlaw Ocean’s more than 400 pages, and the theme is overwhelming, often catastrophic degradation: of people, the environment, borders, and the rule of law (or at least its illusion). In the frigid waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean, Urbina boards a vigilante vessel on a months-long, slow-burn chase of a notorious fish-poaching operation. In the seaside brothels of Thailand, trafficked prostitutes attract young men who are themselves consigned as slave labor on fishing boats. Armies of private “security†forces kill time aboard floating armories, waiting for their next unofficial deployments. These crimes may seem isolated and remote—drops in the ocean, so to speak—but they don’t occur in a vacuum, or for nothing; they support choices made every day in government, in commerce, and in our homes. The Outlaw Ocean is illuminating, terrifying, and often dismaying. It’s also unique, vitally important, and strangely thrilling. —Jon Foro, Amazon Book Review'The Outlaw Ocean brings the reader up close to an overwhelming truth... An impressive feat of reporting... Urbina deftly reveals complicated ideas through his stories.'—The Washington Post'This body of work is a devastating look at the corruption, exploitation, and trafficking that thrive on the open ocean... The writing is straightforward but clever... Eerie and beautiful.'—Outside'The Outlaw Ocean is enriched by Urbina’s gifted storytelling about the destruction of marine life and the murder, crime, and piracy that make the seas so dangerous for those who make their living on them.'—The National Book Review'What we learn from Urbina’s journeys is nothing less than the deepest aspects of humanity itself. Dropped into a world without terra firma’s systems and foibles, our darkest impulses emerge. But our most noble intentions—to save, to protect, to establish fair rule of law—appear as well.'—Paste“In The Outlaw Ocean, Urbina focuses that eye on understanding his characters and their context to show why these crimes get committed and why the culprits rarely get prosecuted. Urbina goes further than most to do this. He shows you a problem from the front lines, by talking to the people there.â€Â—Vice'New York Times journali
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