Ocean Beyond the Law: Human Trafficking, Piracy, and Smuggling in Neutral Waters
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On our planet, there are few undeveloped territories. But perhaps the most wild and least studied are the oceans of the world. Too large to control them, and that do not have a clear international legal status, huge neutral waters are a refuge for a crime rampant.
slave traders and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, abductors of sunken ships and buyers of confiscated goods, vigilant nature defenders and elusive poachers, slaves chained into shackles and illegal passengers abandoned to the mercy of fate. We are introduced to the inhabitants of this closed world by the Pulitzer laureate Ian Urbin, whose dangerous and fearless journalistic investigations, often a hundred miles from the shore, formed the basis of the book. Through the stories of amazing courage and cruelty, survival and tragedies, the author shows the global network of crime and violence that entangles the most important industry for the global economy: fishing, oil producing, navigable
slave traders and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, abductors of sunken ships and buyers of confiscated goods, vigilant nature defenders and elusive poachers, slaves chained into shackles and illegal passengers abandoned to the mercy of fate. We are introduced to the inhabitants of this closed world by the Pulitzer laureate Ian Urbin, whose dangerous and fearless journalistic investigations, often a hundred miles from the shore, formed the basis of the book. Through the stories of amazing courage and cruelty, survival and tragedies, the author shows the global network of crime and violence that entangles the most important industry for the global economy: fishing, oil producing, navigable
Author:
Author:Иэн Урбина
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Law & Legal
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:12+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-00139-497-6
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