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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
8 reviews
errie's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Confinement, Death, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Murder, and Deportation
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Racism, Sexual violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
saara_ilona_muu's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Physical abuse, Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, and Stalking
Moderate: Gore, Gun violence, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
abby_can_read's review
3.0
I liked this book and I enjoyed the narrator. This book was an intense piece of investigative journalism about the ocean -- parts that are rarely seen and what's happening on them. I loved that Urbina took wrote about different places and how they're interconnected.
Graphic: Slavery, Violence, and Trafficking
Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, and Domestic abuse
Minor: Murder
seethinglloron's review
5.0
And, despite my usual misgivings on journalists who spill a lot of ink on their personal connections to the story as slowing the pace, I didn't feel like that at all about Urbina's personal asides. Incredible.
Graphic: Slavery, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexual violence, Torture, Vomit, and War
slowsho's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Animal death, Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Trafficking
10_4tina's review
3.5
I really enjoyed this one. One of the most fascinating chapters in THE SECRET LIFE OF GROCERIES related to shrimp and ocean disregulation and I brought it up with so many people. Taylor mentioned this book along the same lines and I had to read it. This one was long for such tense topics. It's unsettling how inhumane the ocean industry is (for the literal humans involved as well as the animals). Some sections of the book were graphic, others frustrating, and some just sad. The book is excellent but much too long for dark topics too far from my control to make lighter.
To be fair/clear, not all of the book is this tough. Some sections are fascinating without so many complex, negative emotions like the scuba diving resort and the independent nation of Sealand. The cruelty to people, animals, and nature at large is there, but man, is it interesting. Ian Urbina writes in a gripping way that brings you into his journeys. If you can stomach it and are interested in the behind-the-scenes life of the world (in this case the ocean world), you should read it!
Favorite 2 lines:
Chapter 1: The thing about nature is that you become desensitized to it the more you experience it and become unscathed. I don't experience danger as a drug, nor do I seek it out simply for the thrill, but you become somewhat enuered to fear.
Epilogue: A book is never finished, just abandoned
Moderate: Animal cruelty and Slavery
ashiva's review
4.75
Moderate: Slavery and Forced institutionalization
mscalls's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Police brutality, Medical content, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Cannibalism, Abortion, and Murder
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Excrement, and Death of parent