ISBN13: 9780374280390 / ISBN10: 0374280398 / Subject:General/ Essays/ Transportation/ Freight and freightage/ General Transportation/ Copyright:2006/ Publication Date:May 2006/ Binding:Hardcover/ Language:English/ Pages:248 ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** This is a hardcover copy in Good condition. Front cover shows bleached streaks/otherwise in Very Good condition/clean and tight. Dust Jacket is VG/shows minimal edgewear. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** Publisher Comments: Over the past eight years, John McPhee has spent considerable time in the company of people who work in freight transportation. Uncommon Carriers 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. 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 "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. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** I accept payment in the form of postal money orders and personal checks. Personal checks must clear before book is mailed. P/h is $3.25 media mail USA and is a fixed cost. Alaska and Hawaii extra. Insurance of $1.75 is optional, but encouraged in order to cover loss or damage in the mail. Delivery confirmation is $0.80 extra. I combine shipping with multiple auctions. Ask for detials. (IBX#3)******************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************** International p/h will be determined at the end of auction. International payment must be in the form of cash only - USD, Euros, GBP or Scandinavian Krona