Uncommon Carriers
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780786290925 (0786290927)
Publish date: November 1st 2006
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 377
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
Book Club,
Business,
Economics,
Journalism
McPhee joins unusual cargo carriers as they transport huge quantities of goods from one point to another. He travels with a long-haul trucker delivering dangerous chemicals, hitches a ride on a mile-long coal train, lives aboard a river towboat that's longer than the Titanic, and spends time writing...
I loved this book. I actually read the sections when they appeared in The New Yorker. I assume few changes were made. McPhee must have the best job in the world getting to ride with an over-the-road trucker across the United States; traveling down the Illinois River on a towboat and linked barges (...
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