Uncommon carriers / John McPhee.

McPhee'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,...

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Main Author: McPhee, John, 1931-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a A 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. 
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