Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781250058294 (1250058295)
ASIN: 1250058295
Publish date: September 9th 2014
Publisher: Picador
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I love ships. I remember looking at a silhouette picture of an old man in my ChildCraft set, his hand on the shoulders of a young boy, looking out over the sea at a three-masted schooner. The image still creates a frisson of nostalgia for something I never really experienced but always wanted. Som...
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