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There 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 rampant criminality and exploitation.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and epic.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Ian Urbina
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Vintage, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Audio
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781847925855
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