Uncommon Carriers
Autor John McPheeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2007
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.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780865477391
ISBN-10: 0865477396
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN-10: 0865477396
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 137 x 208 x 8 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Farrar Straus Giroux
Notă biografică
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.
Descriere
McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
Cuprins
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