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Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee (2006, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-100374280398
ISBN-139780374280390
eBay Product ID (ePID)50803382
Product Key Features
Book TitleUncommon Carriers
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicGeneral, Essays, Industries / Transportation
GenreTransportation, Literary Collections, Business & Economics
AuthorJohn Mcphee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight16.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2006-007953
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"To read the studious John McPhee in this sensationalist age, when so many other literary journalists are shrieking from some self-aggrandizing edge, is to be reminded of what the genre should be--artfully reported stories that illuminate who we are." --Robert Braile, The Boston Globe, To read the studious John McPhee in this sensationalist age, when so many other literary journalists are shrieking from some self-aggrandizing edge, is to be reminded of what the genre should be--artfully reported stories that illuminate who we are.
Dewey Decimal388/.044
Table Of Content1. A Fleet of One 2. The Ships of Port Revel 3. Tight-Assed River 4. Five Days on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 5. Out in the Sort 6. Coal Train 7. A Fleet of One--II
SynopsisWhat John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the "tight-assed" Illinois River on a "towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic ." And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a homemade skiff in 1839. Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character., What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation. Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. "Uncommon Carriers "is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the " tight-assed" Illinois River on a " towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being " a good deal longer than the "Titanic,"" And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a homemade skiff in 1839. "Uncommon Carriers "is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character., Here, at his adventurous best, the author chronicles his eight years of being out and about with people who work in freight transportation. The prose is distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.
LC Classification NumberHE199.A2M39 2006
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