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NINETY PERCENT OF EVERYTHING - ROSE GEORGE KART...

Eye-opening and compelling  the overlooked world of freight shipping  revealed as the
foundation of our civilization On ship-tracking Web sites  the waters are black with dots. Each
dot is a ship  each ship is laden with boxes  each box is laden with goods. In postindustrial
economies  we no longer produce but buy  and so we must ship. Without shipping there would be
no clothes  food  paper  or fuel. Without all those dots  the world would not work. Yet freight
shipping is all but invisible. Away from public scrutiny  it revels in suspect practices 
dubious operators  and a shady system of flags of convenience. And then there are the pirates.
Rose George  acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore  sails from Rotterdam to Suez
to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls  she
patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force  she joins seafaring chaplains  and
investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Sharply informative and
entertaining  Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world
that holds the key to our economy  our environment  and our very civilization.

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