It doesn't feel like an egotistical book… The book feels very journalistically responsible. He doesn't overly rely on the first person narrative. the detail of this book.Urbina (also) very deftly interweaves behind the scenes how he did this. I'm just going to say flat out is one of the best narrative, non-fiction books by a journalist I've ever read…Here’s what makes this book so good. Pamela Paul Editor of The New York Times Book Review Pulitzer Prize winner Urbina, who earned notice for a 2019 book titled The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier based on an investigative series he penned for The New York Times, will receive the Christopher Dickey award. Praise for The Outlaw Ocean The Hollywood Reporter 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.īoth 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. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways - drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. 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 rampant criminality and exploitation. ![]() There are few remaining frontiers on our planet.
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