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#NewYearNewBooks #shipsorsailing great non -fiction about a container ship that sails from Florida during a Hurricane. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Started this this morning, which Emma somehow remembered I was after the best part of a year ago - thank you @Oryx !

A trip from the UK to Singapore on a Maersk general cargo ship (a tad bigger than these ‘teensy‘ ships in the docks here - one day I‘ll post a picture to show just how teensy they are 😬), and an insight into the global shipping industry. Fascinating and really well-written- I think I‘m going to enjoy this!

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

May 12 #MayMontage Read in the Storm. I don't have any recommendations for any book read in a storm, but I do have a song from a Canadian icon who passed away last week. I grew up with Gordon Lightfoot singing in our living room. I was sad to hear he was gone. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Paperback to the rescue.

This book is really about what it's like to live at sea. The title refers to the fact that we import just about everything but the book is about the people that make that happen and the dangers they face. The author actually lived on a cargo ship as part of her research. I liked it.

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Can you name a ship transport line? What do you know about traversing the Suez Canal or Somali pirates? Do you know who serves in these ships and how long they‘re typically at sea? Ninety Percent of Everything offers a good first person journalistic account of life aboard a Maersk ship.

The dark days of oil spills are over according to this book. “More oil is poured down the drain by mechanics changing their engine oil than is spilled by the worlds fleet of oil tankers.”