Uncommon Carriers
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 t…
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- ISBN: 978-0-86547-739-1
- EAN: 9780865477391
- Produktnummer: 19384859
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 248 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.7 cm x D0.8 cm 295 g
- Gewicht: 295
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