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Author Langewiesche, William.

Title The outlaw sea : a world of freedom, chaos, and crime / William Langewiesche.

Publication Info. New York : North Point Press, 2004.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  387.5 L    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  387.544 LANGEWIESCHE    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  387.544 LAN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  387.54 L26    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  387.544 LANGEWIESCHE    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  387.544 LANGEWIESCHE    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 239 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Note Maps on lining papers.
Contents An ocean world -- The wave makers -- To the ramparts -- On a captive sea -- The ocean's way -- On the beach.
Summary "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.
Subject Shipping.
Merchant marine.
Terrorism.
Ships -- Nationality.
Law of the sea.
Seafaring life.
ISBN 0865475814 hardcover alkaline paper
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