The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and CrimeLangewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. Forty-three thousand gargantuan ships ply the open ocean, carrying nearly all the raw materials and products on which our lives are built. Many are owned or managed by one-ship companies so ghostly that they exist only on paper. They are the embodiment of modern global capital and the most independent objects on earth--many of them without allegiances of any kind, changing identity and nationality at will. Here is free enterprise at it freest, opportunity taken to extremes. |
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AN OCEAN WORLD | 1 |
THE WAVE MAKERS | 41 |
TO THE RAMPARTS | 102 |
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