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Ninety percent of everything : inside shipping, the invisible industry that puts clothes on your back, gas in your car, and food on your plate / Rose George.
LIBRA HE571 .G465 2013
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- George, Rose, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shipping--History.
- Shipping.
- History.
- Freight and freightage--History.
- Freight and freightage.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Co., [2013]
- Summary:
- Revealing the workings and dangers of freight shipping, the author sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore to present an eye-opening glimpse into an overlooked world filled with suspect practices, dubious operators, and pirates.
- Contents:
- Embarkation
- Aboard
- Harbor
- Open sea
- Sea and Suez
- High-risk area
- No-man's-land
- Sanctuary
- Animals beneath
- Rescue
- Disembark.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-266) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805092639
- 0805092633
- OCLC:
- 811597783
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