{"product_id":"uncommon-carriers-john-mcphee-9780865477391","title":"Uncommon Carriers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. John McPhee rides from Atlanta to Tacoma alongside Don Ainsworth, owner and operator of a sixty-five-foot, five-axle, eighteen-wheel chemical tanker carrying hazmats--in Ainsworth's opinion \"the world's most beautiful truck,\" so highly polished you could part your hair while looking at it. He goes \"out in the sort\" among the machines that process a million packages a day at UPS Air's distribution hub at Louisville International Airport. And (among other trips) he travels 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 \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e,\" longer even than the \u003ci\u003eQueen Mary 2\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eUncommon Carriers \u003c\/i\u003eis classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John McPhee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0865477396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780865477391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/03\/2007 pg. 56","brand":"John McPhee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44048095117567,"sku":"9780865477391","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bdb22192-8d78-4073-9512-7a8614696f77.jpg?v=1684993855","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/uncommon-carriers-john-mcphee-9780865477391","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}