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An interesting book on an icky subject. This is not a history book and so covers human poop disposal as is currently done (or not done as the case may be) in various countries. After a while it gets repetitive.
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...
bookshelves: radio-4, autumn-2013, nonfiction, seven-seas, filthy-lucre, travel, published-2013, pirates-smugglers-wreckers Read from September 07 to 13, 2013 BOTWBBC BLURB: Journalist Rose George sails from Felixstowe to Singapore on board the container ship Maersk Kendal to shine a light on the ...
BOTWBBC BLURB: Journalist Rose George sails from Felixstowe to Singapore on board the container ship Maersk Kendal to shine a light on the unexamined global shipping industry. Abridged by Laurence Wareing. Reader: Susie Riddell Producer: Eilidh McCreadie.Cram packed with facts and figures, yet deliv...
Rating: 4.75* of fiveThe Book Report: The crapper. The toilet. The convenience. The Porcelain God. Of them all, it's the last one that's the most correct. We should worship the waste-disposal vessel in every American home, because it and the infrastructure that supports it, invisibly to the end use...
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