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GoodA book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See the seller’s listing for full details and description of any imperfections. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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EX-LIBRARY
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Publication Name
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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ISBN
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9780374280390
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Book Title
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Uncommon Carriers
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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8.5 in
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Publication Year
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2006
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Hardcover
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Language
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English
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0.8 in
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Genre
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Transportation, Literary Collections, Business & Economics
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Topic
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General, Essays, Industries / Transportation
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16.4 Oz
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5.5 in
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Number of Pages
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256 Pages
Uncommon Carriers Hardcover John McPhee
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374280398
ISBN-13
9780374280390
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50803382
Product Key Features
Book Title
Uncommon Carriers
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Topic
General, Essays, Industries / Transportation
Genre
Transportation, Literary Collections, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
16.4 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2006-007953
Dewey Edition
22
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 Decimal
388/.044
Table Of Content
1. 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
Synopsis
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., 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 Number
HE199.A2M39 2006
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