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Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee Book Summary
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.
Book Name | Uncommon Carriers |
Genre | Transportation |
Author | John McPhee |
Published | 16 May 2006, Tuesday |
Language | English |
E-Book Size | 557.78 KB |
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Summary of Uncommon Carriers by John McPhee
The Uncommon Carriers book written by John McPhee was published on 16 May 2006, Tuesday in the Transportation category. A total of 84 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.
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