The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
By: Ian Urbina
4.36
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is a global blind spot, because governments, companies, and consumers either don't know it occurs or, when they do, prefer to look the other way"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on the grocery shelf only days after the fish was pulled from the water thousands of mi,es away. Prices that low and efficiencies that tight come with hidden costs, and it is the manning agencies that help in the hiding."-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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1. The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
By: Óscar Martínez
4.26
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexi… read more
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2. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins
By: Jonathan Balcombe
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A New York TimesBestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can the… read more
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3. Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew
By: Brian Hicks
3.74
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic wit… read more
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4. The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From Susan Casey, bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth, an astonishing book about colossal, ship… read more
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5. California: A History
By: Kevin Starr
3.80
Format: None pages, Paperback
California has always been our Shangri-la-the promised land of countless pilgrims in search of the … read more
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6. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival
By: Dean King
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A spectacular true odyssey through the extremes of the Sahara Desert in the early 19th century. Rea… read more
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7. Minus 148 Degrees
By: Art Davidson
4.21
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis
4.44
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more
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"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
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By: Kvet Nguyen
4.59
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
Už pri jej narodení sa vyskytli problémy s identitou, pridelili jej totiž nesprávne rodné číslo. Mo… read more
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11. The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
By: Ian Urbina
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Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
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"Slavery is a harsh reality thatmour better angels would like to think ended two centuries ago, when many countries passed laws against such bondage withing their borders. But this sort of bondage is …"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
"This fantasy that it is possible to fish sustainably, legally, and using workers with contracts, making a living wage, and still deliver a five-ounce can of skipjack tuna for $2.50 that ends up on th…"-Ian Urbina, The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
12. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
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13. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
By: Patrick Radden Keefe
4.01
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
By: Susan Casey
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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15. Fjaka: Sezon na Chorwację
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4.17
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16. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy
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4.24
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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17. Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of El Faro
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4.22
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19. Sailing Alone: A Surprising History of Isolation and Survival at Sea
By: Richard J. King
3.95
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20. Lud: Z grenlandzkiej wyspy
By: Ilona Wiśniewska
4.06
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U północno-zachodnich wybrzeży największej wyspy świata leży skalista wysepka o powierzchni dwunast… read more
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21. Spev sirén: Putovanie do srdca ukrajinskej vojny
By: Tomáš Forró
4.92
Format: 600 pages, Paperback
Reportážna kniha Tomáša Forróa Spev sirén predstavuje monumentálnu cestu do srdca ukrajinského konf… read more
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