Uncommon Carriers
McPhee, John A.
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BOOK SUMMARY
This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and oper
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This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, five-axle, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmatsin Ainsworths opinion the worlds most beautiful truck, so highly polished you could part your hair while looking at it. He goes out in the sort among the machines that process a million packages a day at UPS Airs distribution hub at Louisville International Airport. And (among other trips) he travels 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, longer even than the Queen Mary 2.
Uncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its authors warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.
AUTHOR BIO
John McPhee is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He is the author of twenty- nine books, all published by FSG. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
BOOK 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 beartfully reported stories that illuminate who we are. Robert Braile, The Boston Globe
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0865477396
ISBN(13-digit): 9780865477391
Dewey Decimal: 388
Book Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 248
