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An award-winning investigation into the shady world of international shipping, the hidden industry upon which our world turns and our future depends

About the Author

ROSE GEORGE is a freelance writer and author of A Life Removed: Hunting for Refuge in the Modern World (long-listed for the Ulysses Reportage Prize) and The Big Necessity: Adventures in the World of Human Waste (Portobello, 2008; shortlisted for the BMA Book Prize). She contributes regularly to the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Independent and others. http://rosegeorge.com/site/

Reviews

Arresting, sharply observed, deeply researched and compelling... Plenty of books promise to reveal the secrets of little-known worlds but few actually deliver. This is one that does
*Sunday Telegraph*

From the always intriguing catalogue of Portobello Books, [this book] goes behind the scenes of those mammoth vessels that ply the oceans bringing us all our lovely stuff
*Daily Telegraph*

As fascinating as it is troublingly insightful... This is a remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty, compassionate - that deserves to be read
*Guardian*

A marvel of information, insight and intelligence laced with humour, humanity and high spirits
*The Times*

With her precise and beautiful clarity of prose, [George] has now fired a brilliant star-shell over the wine-dark sea and the ships that pass in its night, illuminating the details of the invisible ocean industry that is, and always will be, essential to all of us
*Atlantic*

Fascinating and insightful
*Observer*

A stunningly detailed and absorbing piece of investigative journalism, combined with a gripping and very human account of a long sea journey, with all its loneliness, fears, and moments of magic
*Andes*

Beautifully captures the surprising nuances of this little-known world... [George's] strong, spare, gleaming prose steams along, powered by curiosity, compassion, outrage. As a writer, a reporter, and a human being, George is-stand by for nautical term-First Rate
*Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal*

The two greatest stories are supposed to be "A man goes on a journey" and "A stranger comes to town". In this enthralling, literally wide-ranging book, George tells both: she goes on a voyage that few other journalists have accomplished, and she unveils the unknown seafarers who bring us all the world's goods. Sympathetic, deeply reported and unexpectedly poignant
*Superbug*

To the classic incredible journeys-Moby Dick, Two Years Before the Mast-George adds another, her voyage round the world aboard a container ship, revealing what happens before the big bang of merchandise explodes from the high seas into civilization
*Flotsametrics and the Floating World*

[An] engaging voyage through the shady world of international shipping
*Bookseller*

Riveting
*Nature*

Few readers will be left in any doubt as to the importance of this opaque industry on which we all depend
*Financial Times*

It is a travelogue of sorts, written in clear, straightforward English, about the people, pirates and machinery that make up the modern maritime industry
*New Statesman*

A very good book
*Literary Review*

A very important book. [George] has vision and curiosity [and she] really does ask the right questions. You should read this book
*Lloyd’s List*

Absorbing [and] engrossing
*New York Times*

Cleverly constructed, carefully researched, moving, vivid... Thoughtful and provocative, written with style and passion
*Nautilus International*

Fascinating
*Hythe Herald*

A fascinating exploration of the world of container shipping
*Yorkshire Post*

A remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty, compassionate - that deserves to be read
*South China Morning Post*

She uncovers many serious (and murky) issues
*Pascal Lamy, Former Director General of WTO, Best Books of the Year*

Excellent... panoramic
*Independent*

Interesting, relevant, and [full of] surprising facts
*Hill Dickinson Newsletter*

Eye-opening
*Mail on Sunday*

Very readable and compelling
*The Maritime Executive*

Fascinating [and] troublingly insightful. This is a remarkable work of embedded reportage - hair-raising, witty, compassionate - that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the cartographies of the contemporary world
*Guardian*

Absorbing
*Irish Independent *****

In a work of great insight and sympathy, George conveys the monotony and loneliness of the modern commercial sailor's life while also describing the omnipresent dangers
*Irish Times*

A very well researched and written appreciation of the modern maritime industry and most of its people
*Baird Publications*

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