Deep Sea and Foreign Going
Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry that Brings You 90% of Everything
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4.5 • 11 Ratings
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- £11.99
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- £11.99
Publisher Description
There are 100,000 freighters on the seas. Between them they carry nearly everything we eat, wear and work with. In this unique investigation, Rose George joins the crew of a container ship to chart the murky waters of international shipping, with its powerful naval fleets, pirate gangs, and illegal floating factories, to reveal the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends.
Customer Reviews
Mr
I am afarid that I am infected with the same romanticism for the sea as Rose suffers from. An excellent read although she did not entirely tells us of how she spent everyday, just the interesting bits and a very humane look at her Capatin Glenn and his team. I would have enjoyed learning more of their daily routines and responsibilities but the depth of her reseach into pirating, wartime traffic, and adventures, sacrifice, and lack of appreciation, as well as the movement of goods by commercail ships was indeed profound and informative. The difference in her life within the time spent upon a Man of War was fascinating, but always her erspect for the Merchant Navy was profound and deeply human.