{"product_id":"uncommon-carriers-used-1st-edition-hardcover-john-mcphee","title":"Uncommon Carriers (Used 1st Edition Hardcover) - John McPhee","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOver the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncommon Carriers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats. McPhee 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 tight-assed Illinois River on a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etowboat pushing a triple string of barges, the overall vessel being a good deal longer than the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. And he travels by canoe up the canal-and-lock commercial waterways traveled by Henry David Thoreau and his brother, John, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein a homemade skiff in 1839.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncommon Carriers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublished 2006 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, First Edition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e248 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.75\" X 8.5\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition: This book is in Very Good Condition. The pages are clean and unmarked. There is slight wear on the edges of the dust cover.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reach Literacy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55115966185696,"sku":"0924KB","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0431\/0794\/2562\/files\/7891514.jpg?v=1790278348","url":"https:\/\/reachareader.com\/products\/uncommon-carriers-used-1st-edition-hardcover-john-mcphee","provider":"Reach Literacy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}