Uncommon Carriers
- ISBN-10
- 0865477396
- ISBN-13
- 9780865477391
- Category
- Literary Collections
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-04-03
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- John McPhee
Description
McPhee, in prose distinguished by its warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character, looks at the people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation.
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