{"product_id":"uncommon-carriers","title":"Uncommon Carriers","description":"What John McPhee's books all have in common is that they are about real people in real places. Here, at his adventurous best, he is out and about with people who work in freight transportation.\n\nOver 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,\neighteen-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\n\"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,\nin a homemade skiff in 1839.\n\nUncommon Carriers is classic work by McPhee, in prose distinguished, as always, by its author's warm humor, keen insight, and rich sense of human character.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0374280398\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0374280398.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:McPhee, John\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41419887411258,"sku":"DBV.0374280398.A","price":5.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0374280398-0.jpg?v=1778866475","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/uncommon-carriers","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}