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26%OFFRose George - Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything - 9781846272998 - V9781846272998
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Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything

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Description for Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything Paperback. An award-winning investigation into the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: KNGS; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping 'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does' Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique and fascinating investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship travelling the long journey from Felixstowe to Singapore and charts the murky waters of international shipping. This is an eye-opening tale ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846272998
SKU
V9781846272998
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Rose George
ROSE GEORGE is the author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) and The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize). She contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent and others. http://rosegeorge.com/site/

Reviews for Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Brings You 90% of Everything
Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does
Melanie McGrath
Sunday Telegraph
From the always intriguing catalogue of Portobello Books, [this book] goes behind the scenes of those mammoth vessels that ply the oceans bringing us all our ... Read more

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