In “The Outlaw Ocean,” the journalist Ian Urbina highlights how, in overlooking the seas, we’ve allowed that void to become a vacuum for corruption, violence and lawlessness, a stage for gruesome deaths and even more gruesome lives - and then he brings us into intimate contact with those lives, forcing witness. If you’re like I am, you don’t think much about the oceans - what Ernest Shackleton called “the void spaces of the world.” When I’ve thought about them, it’s mostly in the context of how they affect the land: what rising sea levels mean for coastal cities, for example, or how the Gulf Stream shapes the Arctic climate. THE OUTLAW OCEAN Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier By Ian Urbina
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