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Genre/Form: | Nonfiction Literature Juvenile works Juvenile literature Ouvrages pour la jeunesse |
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Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
LeeAnne Gelletly |
ISBN: | 9781619000377 1619000377 9781619000384 1619000385 |
OCLC Number: | 828055978 |
Description: | pages. |
Contents: | Modern piracy: an introduction -- Alondra Rainbow: the phantom ship -- Antipiracy efforts -- Choizil hijacking: twenty months in "hostage hell" -- Cruise ship attacks -- Environmental threat of piracy -- Faina hijacking: dangerous cargo -- Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea -- Hostages seized on land -- Hostages seized at sea -- Le Ponant hijacking: France responds to piracy -- Lynn Rival hijacking: the Chandlers' ordeal -- Maersk Alabama: a captain's courage -- Prosecuting pirates -- The Quest hijacking: a deadly confrontation -- Sirius Star: the first hijacked supertanker -- Somalia: a haven for modern pirates -- Southeast Asia and piracy. |
Series Title: | True crime library. |
Responsibility: | LeeAnne Gelletly. |
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Abstract:
With case studies and analysis, this book provides a multifaceted examination of maritime piracy today, including who the pirates are, where and how they operate, and what is being done to stop them.
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