An award-winning investigation into the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends
ROSE GEORGE is a freelance writer and author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) and The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize). She contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent and others. http://rosegeorge.com/site/
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
*Sunday Telegraph*
From the always intriguing catalogue of Portobello Books, [this
book] goes behind the scenes of those mammoth vessels that ply the
oceans bringing us all our lovely stuff
*Daily Telegraph*
As fascinating as it is troublingly insightful... This is a
remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty,
compassionate - that deserves to be read
*Guardian*
A marvel of information, insight and intelligence laced with
humour, humanity and high spirits
*The Times*
With her precise and beautiful clarity of prose, [George] has now
fired a brilliant star-shell over the wine-dark sea and the ships
that pass in its night, illuminating the details of the invisible
ocean industry that is, and always will be, essential to all of
us
*Atlantic*
Fascinating and insightful
*Observer*
A stunningly detailed and absorbing piece of investigative
journalism, combined with a gripping and very human account of a
long sea journey, with all its loneliness, fears, and moments of
magic
*Andes*
Beautifully captures the surprising nuances of this little-known
world... [George's] strong, spare, gleaming prose steams along,
powered by curiosity, compassion, outrage. As a writer, a reporter,
and a human being, George is-stand by for nautical term-First
Rate
*Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal*
The two greatest stories are supposed to be "A man goes on a
journey" and "A stranger comes to town". In this enthralling,
literally wide-ranging book, George tells both: she goes on a
voyage that few other journalists have accomplished, and she
unveils the unknown seafarers who bring us all the world's goods.
Sympathetic, deeply reported and unexpectedly poignant
*Superbug*
To the classic incredible journeys-Moby Dick, Two Years Before the
Mast-George adds another, her voyage round the world aboard a
container ship, revealing what happens before the big bang of
merchandise explodes from the high seas into civilization
*Flotsametrics and the Floating World*
[An] engaging voyage through the shady world of international
shipping
*Bookseller*
Riveting
*Nature*
Few readers will be left in any doubt as to the importance of this
opaque industry on which we all depend
*Financial Times*
It is a travelogue of sorts, written in clear, straightforward
English, about the people, pirates and machinery that make up the
modern maritime industry
*New Statesman*
A very good book
*Literary Review*
A very important book. [George] has vision and curiosity [and she]
really does ask the right questions. You should read this book
*Lloyd’s List*
Absorbing [and] engrossing
*New York Times*
Cleverly constructed, carefully researched, moving, vivid...
Thoughtful and provocative, written with style and passion
*Nautilus International*
Fascinating
*Hythe Herald*
A fascinating exploration of the world of container shipping
*Yorkshire Post*
A remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty,
compassionate - that deserves to be read
*South China Morning Post*
She uncovers many serious (and murky) issues
*Pascal Lamy, Former Director General of WTO, Best Books of the
Year*
Excellent... panoramic
*Independent*
Interesting, relevant, and [full of] surprising facts
*Hill Dickinson Newsletter*
Eye-opening
*Mail on Sunday*
Very readable and compelling
*The Maritime Executive*
Fascinating [and] troublingly insightful. This is a remarkable work
of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty, compassionate - that
deserves to be read by anyone interested in the cartographies of
the contemporary world
*Guardian*
Absorbing
*Irish Independent *****
In a work of great insight and sympathy, George conveys the
monotony and loneliness of the modern commercial sailor's life
while also describing the omnipresent dangers
*Irish Times*
A very well researched and written appreciation of the modern
maritime industry and most of its people
*Baird Publications*
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