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Ninety Percent Of Everything
Rose George
nside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Metropolitan Books
August 2013
On Sale: August 13, 2013
287 pages
ISBN: 0805092633
EAN: 9780805092639
Kindle: B009LRWJKW
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
Eye-opening and compelling, the overlooked world of freight
shipping, revealed as the foundation of our
civilization On ship-tracking websites, the waters are
black with dots. Each dot is a ship; each ship is laden with
boxes; each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial
economies, we no longer produce but buy. We buy, so we must
ship. Without shipping there would be no clothes, food,
paper, or fuel. Without all those dots, the world would not
work. Freight shipping has been no less revolutionary
than the printing press or the Internet, yet it is all but
invisible. Away from public scrutiny, shipping revels in
suspect practices, dubious operators, and a shady system of
“flags of convenience.” Infesting our waters, poisoning our
air, and a prime culprit of acoustic pollution, shipping is
environmentally indefensible. And then there are the
pirates. Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we
would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to
Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the
height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with
an anti-piracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains,
and investigates fishing trawlers and the harm they are
inflicting on endangered whales. Sharply informative
and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything
reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that
holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very
civilization.
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