Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
Language: English
Published by Granta Books 2014-07-03, 2014
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- Title
- Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
- Author
- Rose George MA
- Publisher
- Granta Books 2014-07-03
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1846272998
- ISBN 13
- 9781846272998
An award-winning investigation into the strange and secretive world of international shipping.
'Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does' Melanie McGrath, Sunday Telegraph
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique and fascinating investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship travelling the long journey from Felixstowe to Singapore and charts the murky waters of international shipping. This is an eye-opening tale of powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, which reveals the vast hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
'This is a remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty, compassionate - that deserves to be read' Sukhdev Sandhu, Guardian
A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and winner of a Society of Authors Travelling Scholarship and a Mountbatten Maritime Award
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About the Author
Rose George is a British journalist and author. She has been a postwar correspondent, a writer of reportage, and a regular book reviewer. She has written four non-fiction books. A Life Removed, The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why it Matters; Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry the Brings you 90% of Everything; Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood and Every Last Fish: A Deep Dive into the World of Fishes and Fishing. She graduated with a First-Class Honours BA in Modern Languages at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1992 and an MA in International Politics in 1994 from the University of Pennsylvania as a Thouron Scholar and Fulbright Fellow. S
www.rosegeorge.com
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