{"product_id":"9781429954594","title":"The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178122854640,"sku":"9781429954594","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429954594_p0.jpg?v=1769902791","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429954594","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}