{"product_id":"the-outlaw-ocean","title":"The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortionists, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways: drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world’s economies rely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51628415549757,"sku":"9781847925862","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9781847925862.jpg?v=1776983356","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/the-outlaw-ocean","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}