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Uncommon Carriers

Uncommon Carriers

McPhee, John

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Publisher Price: $19.00

ISBN10: 0865477396
ISBN13: 9780865477391
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Apr 3 2007
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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 hazmats--in Ainsworth's opinion the world's 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 Air's 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 author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.

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