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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: pirates of Somalia
    sub title: inside their hidden world
  name:
    name part: Bahadur, Jay.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    place:
      place term: Toronto
    publisher: HarperCollins
    date issued: c2011
    date issued: 2011
    edition: 1st Canadian ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 302 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: For centuries, stories of pirates have captured the imagination of people everywhere. But the recent gangs of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking huge ships owned by international conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The world sees nothing but opportunistic bands of local bandits, but Jay Bahadur, the only Western journalist to venture so deeply into this world, truly sees how it operates. In The Pirates of Somalia, Bahadur ventures to Puntland, a region in northeastern Somalia, and tells of the pirates' lives beyond the attack skiffs, how they spend their money, how they conduct business, how they think and why they risk their lives in often suicidal missions. In the remote pirate havens of Somalia, Bahadur sits down and talks with some of the pirates, their cheeks bulging with khat (the local drug of choice), their cellphones ringing as the men conduct their business. Bahadur also talks to some of the security personnel tasked with combating piracy, as well as with former pirate hostages who lived on their ships for months while awaiting news of a ransom. The Pirates of Somalia is a major first book by a young freelance journalist who talks his way into one of the world's most dangerous places.
  table of contents: Prologue : where the white man runs away -- Boyah -- A short history of piracy -- Pirate lore -- Of pirates, coast guards, and fishermen -- Garaad -- Flower of paradise -- The land of Punt -- Momman -- The policemen of the sea -- The law of the sea -- Into the pirates' lair -- Pirate insider -- The cadet and the chief -- The freakonomics of piracy -- The road's end -- Epilogue : the problems of Puntland.
  note: Jay Bahadur.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-so---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Bahadur, Jay
    topic: Travel
    geographic: Somalia
    geographic: Puntland
  subject:
    topic: Pirates
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Piracy
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Hijacking of ships
    geographic: Somalia
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Puntland (Somalia)
    topic: Economic conditions
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    geographic: Somalia
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1991-
  classification: 364/.164/096
  identifier: 9781554686827
  identifier: 1554686822
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 110722
    record change date: 20200723125538.0
    record identifier: in00002706899
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng