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LEADER: 02174cam a22003134a 4500
001 2006007953
003 DLC
005 20061215082002.0
008 060307s2006 nyu 000 0 eng
010 $a 2006007953
020 $a0374280398 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780374280390 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm64595895
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBAKER$dC#P$dBUR$dWCM$dVP@$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aHE199.A2$bM39 2006
082 00 $a388/.044$222
100 1 $aMcPhee, John,$d1931-
245 10 $aUncommon carriers /$cJohn McPhee.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus, and Giroux,$c2006.
300 $a248 p. ;$c22 cm.
505 0 $aA fleet of one -- The ships of Port Revel -- Tight-assed river -- Five days on the Concord and Merrimack rivers -- Out in the sort -- Coal train -- A fleet of one : II.
520 $aMcPhee's books are about real people in real places. Over the past eight years, McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. This is his sketchbook of them and of his journeys with them. He rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. He attends ship-handling school on a pond in the foothills of the French Alps, where, for a tuition of $15,000 a week, skippers of the largest ocean ships refine their capabilities in twenty-foot scale models. He goes up the Illinois River on a "towboat" pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being "a good deal longer than the Titanic." And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, in a homemade skiff in 1839.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aFreight and freightage.
650 0 $aTransportation.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006007953-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0629/2006007953-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0667/2006007953-s.html