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NinetyPercentofEverything:InsideShipping

NinetyPercentofEverything:InsideShipping

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作者: Rose George 著

出版社: MetropolitanBooks

出版时间: 2013-08

ISBN: 9780805092639

定价: 199.30

装帧: 精装

页数: 304页

正文语种: 英语

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>小说

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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 the harm that ships inflict 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. Rose George is the author of Ninety Percent of Everything:Inside Shipping,the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back,Gas in Your Car,and Food on Your Plate,The Big Necessity:The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters and A Life Removed:Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World.A freelance journalist,she has written for The New York Times,Slate,Harpers,and the Financial Times.She lives in London.
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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 the harm that ships inflict 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.
作者简介:
Rose George is the author of Ninety Percent of Everything:Inside Shipping,the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back,Gas in Your Car,and Food on Your Plate,The Big Necessity:The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters and A Life Removed:Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World.A freelance journalist,she has written for The New York Times,Slate,Harpers,and the Financial Times.She lives in London.

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