Ian Urbina has 3 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 3.7★ across 45 ratings. The most-rated is The Outlaw Ocean.
The Outlaw Ocean
Summary
"A riveting, terrifying, thrilling story of a netherworld that few people know about, and fewer will ever see.... The soul of this book is as wild as the ocean itself." (Susan Casey, best-selling author of The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean) An adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways - drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.
©2019 Ian Urbina (P)2019 Random House Audio
Life's Little Annoyances
Summary
What can you do when the world is pushing you over the edge? More than you think. For some of us, it's the automated voice that answers the phone when we'd rather talk to a real person. For others, it's the fact that Starbucks insists on calling its smallest-sized coffee "tall". Or perhaps it's those pesky subscription cards that fall out of magazines. Whatever it is, each of us finds some aspect of everyday life to be particularly maddening, and we often long to lash out at these stubborn irritants of modern life. In Life's Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it any more. It is a compendium of human inventiveness, by turns juvenile and petty, but in other ways inspired and deeply satisfying. We meet the junk-mail recipient who sends back unwanted "business reply" envelopes weighted down with sheet metal, so the mailers will have to pay the postage. We commiserate with the woman who was fed up with the colleague who kept helping himself to her lunch cookies, so she replaced them with dog biscuits that looked like biscotti. And we revel in the seemingly endless number of tactics people use to vent their anger at telemarketers, loud cellphone talkers, spammers, and others who impose themselves on us. A celebration of the endless variety of passive aggressive behavior, Life's Little Annoyances will provide comfort and inspiration to everyone who has ever gritted his teeth and dreamed of sweet retribution against the slings and arrows of outrageous people.
©2005 Ian Urbina (P)2005 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
Outlaw Ocean (German edition)
Summary
Es gilt als unberechenbar und zugleich als Sehnsuchtsort: das Meer. Die unendliche Weite, die Schönheit, aber auch die Gefahren, die die Hohe See birgt, faszinieren Abenteurer und Autoren seit Jahrhunderten. Doch zusehends gefährden Überfischung und Umweltverschmutzung das Meer als Lebensraum und als Ressource für den Menschen. Der mit dem Pulitzer-Preis ausgezeichnete amerikanische Journalist Ian Urbina spürt einerseits dieser Faszination nach und deckt andererseits Missstände auf, wie moderne Sklaverei auf Fischerbooten oder das Aussetzen blinder Passagiere auf hoher See. Seine Zusammenstellung von Reportagen ist eine Reise in eine von verschwimmenden Gesetzen geregelte Welt, in der nationales Recht nicht greift und internationale Abkommen schwer zu überwachen sind - was skrupellose Kriminelle geschickt für ihre Zwecke zu nutzen wissen. Er erzählt darüber hinaus Geschichten über die Menschen, die ihm auf dem Meer begegnet sind: "gewaltbereite Umweltschützer, Wrackdiebe, maritime Söldner, aufsässige Walfänger, Sachpfänder auf See, auf dem Meer arbeitende Abtreibungsärztinnen, illegale Ölentsorger, schwer zu fassende Wilderer, im Stich gelassene Seeleute". "Outlaw Ocean - Die gesetzlose See" umfasst neue Recherchen und die besten Stücke einer gleichnamigen Reportagereihe für die New York Times, die Urbina als investigativer Reporter seit 2014 verfasst. >> Diese ungekürzte Hörbuch-Fassung genießt du exklusiv nur bei Audible.
©2019 Ian Urbina. Übersetzung von Kerstin Fricke, Claudia Hahn, Tanja Lampa (P)2019 Audible Studios