Ninety Percent of Everything : Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate

from bouillabaisse

Another excellent book from Rose George! I love how she writes on topics that most people never think about or are even aware of, yet they are vital to our way (privileged) of living in this world...She writes well, draws you in by constructing a compelling narrative that she intersperses with fa...

from Philogos

This is a fascinating book. Difficult to categorise as it is so broad in scope, covering travel on a container ship from Felixstowe to Singapore, the life of the seafarer, piracy, law of the sea, ecology and everything in between. The writing is exceptionally good, always finding the right tellin...

from libri_amor

Rose George's latest book takes its title from the fact that 90% of ALL goods are transported by sea. In Ninety Percent of Everything, Ms George took as her task to illuminate this nearly invisible industry that we all depend on. In this engrossing book we get a glimpse of life aboard the Maersk ...

from rastaphrog

Even the most industrialized of nations gets at least some or part of the products it consumes transported by ships. Today it's mostly via container ships that ply the oceans of the world. I really enjoyed George's look at "toilets" around the world, so had high hopes for this book. Unfortunatel...

from yarb

Not so much "inside shipping" as the author staving off the crushing boredom of her 9,000 mile voyage by writing about whales, old shipwrecks and piracy law. I would have appreciated more colour and insight on the Filipino, Romanian, Chinese etc. crew she shared the voyage with. All we really com...