Uncommon Carriers by John Mcphee
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780865477391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0865477396 |
| Title | Uncommon Carriers |
| Author | John Mcphee |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | North Point Press |
| Year published | 2007-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |