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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, eighteeContinue
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Bookreporter.com - UNCOMMON CARRIERS by John McPhee
Each new book from John McPhee challenges bookbuyers' preconceptions of what subjects they presumably would choose not to read about --- birchbark canoes, shad, geology, freight transportation. But his readers --- in particular those whose encounters ... (read full critics)
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- English Books
- Paperback 248 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0865477396
- ISBN-13: 9780865477391
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Pub date: Apr 03, 2007
- Dimensions: 1355 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover
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| 9780865477391 | Paperback | $15.00 | $10.29 | bn.com |
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| $15.00 | $9.99 | The Book Depository | ||
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Uncommon Carriers By John McPhee
Is there any subject that John McPhee cannot make interesting? As a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than 40 years, the peripatetic journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner has taken on such unexpected topics as the Swiss army, the American shad, ... (read full critics)