Read Ninety Percent Of Everything: Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car, And Food On Your Plate (2013)
Ninety Percent Of Everything: Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car, And Food On Your Plate (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
This author gives us a misleading title, but despite that an OK book. The books is part travelogue. If Bill Bryson had written this book, it would have been 'Walk in a Container Ship.' The book is also about somali pirates, clergymen and the shipping industry. I wish the author had stuck container shipping & delved more deeply into other aspects of the shipping industry, rather than going off course. There is not enough of any particular subject to be satisfied, but one is left with chapters that while interesting are only loosely connected and some quite bland. It seems that much of the crew she interviewed provided little usable material apparently not a very verbose group. I really enjoyed this look at the world of modern overseas shipping. It's amazing that it remains so primitive in so many ways. The container shipping business is something that most Americans have little concept of, or any idea that's where most of our "stuff" arrives in. Also, the human rights, and law at sea is not at all what we're used to where we live on land. It used to be even worse apparently, and not that long ago. Fascinating stuff.
What do You think about Ninety Percent Of Everything: Inside Shipping, The Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes On Your Back, Gas In Your Car, And Food On Your Plate (2013)?
This book is fascinating. It's a look into the world of shipping. Very interesting.
—MonaLeeShay
Little do we know how we get our stuff. A fascinating tale of the back story.
—damejoseph
Adds a great perspective to an ignored five percent of GDP
—kennedy
